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Venezuela: Hugo Chavez's six-year plan for the Bolivarian Revolution

October 31, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The following document is the political platform on which Hugo Chavez successfully sought re-election as the president of Venezuela. It was released in Spanish in June 2012. English translation courtesy of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Canberra, Australia.

Proposal of the Candidate of the
Homeland,
Commander Hugo Chávez,
for the Socialist Bolivarian Government, 2013–2019

INTRODUCTION

I

Once
again the circumstances have made me stand in front of the people to let them
know about my determined and renewed commitment towards the defense of National
Independence. This is the time, like never before, to give a face and a meaning
to the Socialist Homeland we are all fighting for.This government program for the period 2013 –
2019 has been designed to pursue these supreme goals:

Independence
and Socialist Homeland!!

As
our Liberator had said, back in 1820: We are unswervingly determined to win
independence or else. Final independence or else should be the motto of
today’s Bolivarian men and women.Final
independence is our cause and our permanent task.

Independence,
from the point of view of the present circumstances and context, makes us look
into the past to find a true course towards the future.That is why we, men and women, confront the
reactionary thesis of the empire and the bourgeoisie that is contrary to the
Homeland, with the combatant, creative and liberating thesis of Independence
and Socialism, which is an open project and dialectical construction:
Independence is not complete; we are forging it through our daily and permanent
struggle.

It
is our task to fully realize the liberation dream that has never ceased to
throb in our Homeland and is still throbbing today.And so I believe, based on the combatant
faith and the loving reason that encourage me: we feel obliged by our heroic
legacy, and such an urge becomes a banner and a commitment for all of us, men
and women. In the times we are living in we must face up to these challenges;
so many sacrifices can not be rendered futile.Turning them into the flesh and blood of the new life shall continue to
be the ultimate aspiration that compels and defies us.

II

This
is a program for the transition to socialism and the radicalization of a
pre-eminent and participatory democracy.We start from the principle that the speeding up of transition
necessarily requires the speeding up of the process of reinstatement of
people’s power.The dynamic, effective
and full exercise of the pre-eminent people’s power is an indispensable condition
for the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century. That is precisely
the reason why it is the fundamental basis and the vertex of the ‘Simón Bolívar’ National Project. The First
Socialist Program for the Social and Economic Development of the Nation 2007 –
2013.During this cycle that is
about to conclude, our projections have categorically emphasized the strategic
role of this Program which, in this next cycle, shall become all the more
strategic.

We
shouldn’t let ourselves be deceived: the social and economic system that still
prevails in Venezuela is a capitalist and rentier system.Certainly, socialism has just begun to impose
on us its own internal dynamics. This is precisely a program to strengthen and
consolidate socialism, looking for a radical suppression of the logic of
capital. This program should be implemented step by step without slowing down
our advance towards socialism.

In
order to move towards socialism, we need a people’s power capable of
disarticulating the oppression, exploitation and domination plots that still
exist in the Venezuelan society.People’s power should be able to shape up new social relations in our
everyday life, where fraternity and solidarity go hand in hand with the continued
emergence of new forms of planning and production of material wealth for our
people. To achieve that, it is necessary to completely pulverize the bourgeois
State that we have inherited, which is still being replicated through its old
and nefarious practices, and ensure continuity in the process of creation of
new forms of policy management.

However,
in what context, both in Our America and the world, are we giving life to a
socialist alternative model? It is evident that Our America is living through a
change of epoch that took off –and it is only fair to recognize it- when the
Bolivarian Revolution came into power: a change of epoch that is characterized
by a true and real change of power relationships in favor of the big
majorities.It is likewise evident that
the capitalist system/world is going through a structural crisis that could be
terminal: a crisis that, given its catastrophic dimensions, compels us, from
the political point of view, as Martí would have said, to clarify and
anticipate events -as in fact we have been doing- to minimize its impacts on
Venezuela. But there is an encouraging sign that I would like to emphasize: an
international multipolar system oriented towards that great principle that
Bolivar called ‘the equilibrium of the universe’ has begun to lay its own foundations.

III

I
propose this program in the belief that only through a broad-base discussion
among the grassroots and the leading participation of the people we would be
able to further perfect said program and tap its full and creative potential.

This
is a program that intends to trespass the “point of no return”. In the words of
Antonio Gramsci, the old must finally end so that the birth of the new can be
manifested to the full.

The
coherence of this Government Program is based on a course of action that is
absolutely crucial: we are forced to trespass the point of no return and make
our transit to socialism irreversible.Certainly, it is difficult to know exactly when this great horizon will
become visible, but we should deploy significant and well aimed efforts in the
interest of its advent –as Bolivar advised.

Founding
ourselves anew, as the Constitution states, is a necessity that admits no
delay, because if we lack that vital instrument we would lose an opportunity to
complete the people’s historical and heroic deeds that were first worked by our
ancestors and for which we feel ethically responsible.The consolidation of the Fifth Socialist and
Bolivarian Republic is the most beautiful and enlightening validation of the
more than two centuries of struggle and sacrifices.

Our
past, our entire past, is still alive and has taught to us that we have been
and will continue being a product of adversities; but it has also taught to us
that, thanks to those adversities, we have been able to collectively envisage
that which can not be put off any longer, which is clearly reflected in this
Government Program: to have a Homeland, at long last; to win an independent and
sovereign Homeland for our children and our children’s children; an everlasting
and happy Homeland where we have always wanted to live; the Socialist and
Bolivarian Homeland that, as fate has inexorably will want it, will succeed
next October 7, 2012, at the Carabobo battle of the 21st
century.The Ecclesiastes states so: “…and in their times all things pass under heaven…”

Building
this Homeland so that you, Venezuelan compatriot, men, woman, mother, father,
youngster, girl and boy could live well, with justice and dignity is what
encourages my struggle and is one of the main reasons I live for, in the
company of my loved ones, my son, my daughters and my parents.

My
suggestion to you is that we keep on struggling, as our singer Alí Primera used
to say: “…for the dawn of a new world…”,
for the dawn of a Socialist and Independent Homelandwhere we can live by living, inspired by the
loftiest values of humanism. My beloved people, I, a soldier at your service,
have put all my heart and soul in this endeavor.

Issued in Caracas, the country of birth
of the Liberator, Simón Bolívar, on June 12, 2012.

Hugo Chávez Frías

Independence
and Socialist Homeland!!

We
Shall Live and We Shall Win!!

Program of the Homeland

INTRODUCTION

The
document that we are today submitting to the consideration of the Electoral
Power, but especially to the consideration of the hardworking and heroic people
of Venezuela and its combatant youth, is a draft electoral program that gives
continuity to and improves on some of the strategies contained in the First
Socialist Program of the Simón Bolívar
Nation, which are being fully developed and implemented.

We
should point out that the second Socialist Program for the period 2013 – 2019
is being drafted already. It is an updating of the strategic chart that should
guide us through the transition towards the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st
century and includes five historical objectives, namely:

I.Defend, expand and consolidate the most
treasured asset we have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence.

II.Continue building the Bolivarian
socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela as an alternative to the
savage and destructive capitalist system and ensure “the highest possible social security, political stability and
happiness” for our people.

III.Turn Venezuela into a social, economic
and political power as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and
the Caribbean to ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America.

IV.Contribute to the development of a new
International Geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar
world that would allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe
and ensure peace on the planet.

V.Preserve peace in the planet and save
the human species.

The
first of them relating to the consolidation of our Independence refers mainly
to the set of national and strategic political, economic, social and cultural
goals whose scope will allow us to lay the foundations for the irreversibility
of national sovereignty.

It
takes into account the need to ensure the continuity of the revolutionary
process, which means to achieve the most overwhelming popular victory in the
presidential elections of October 7, 2012.To this end, the unity of all workers, small and medium producers in the
countryside or the city, as well as all other social sectors will be crucial.
Likewise, it is aimed at preserving the sovereignty over our oil resources in
particular and our natural resources in general. This, in turn, will have to be
translated into a stronger ability to make a sovereign use of our national
income.Food sovereignty and the full
use of our agricultural potential shall be another strategic objective.

Equally
crucial for the achievement of this first goal is the full development of our
scientific and technological capabilities by creating the necessary conditions
for the development of an innovating, transformational and dynamic model
oriented towards a better use of the national potentialities and capabilities
as well as the need to consolidate our identity as a nation and as part of Our
America, based on the Bolivarian principle that “America is Our Homeland”.

Finally,
this first major goal includes the strengthening of the national defensive
power by consolidating the civil-military unity and increasing the operational
preparedness of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces for a General Defense of
our Homeland.

The
second major historical goal relates to the ways to build our socialism in
order to achieve supreme happiness for our people.It will be necessary, first and foremost, to
accelerate the change of the economic system, moving away from the capitalist
oil-oriented rentier-like model to a socialist production economic model, thus
making way for a more just and egalitarian society and moving on to socialism,
with the support of the Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and
Justice, with the aim of moving on towards the full satisfaction of the basic
needs of our people: food, water, electricity, housing and the habitat, public
transportation, health, education, public safety, access to culture, freedom of
communication, science and technology, sports, wholesome recreation and decent
and liberating jobs.

All
of the above has to do with the necessary promotion of a new ethical, moral and
spiritual hegemony that would allow us to get rid of the vice of the old
capitalist socialist model that have not totally disappeared.In this regard, a special reference should be
made to the expressed purpose of continuing to move on to the development of a
public safety model for the protection of human life and ultimately
revolutionize the justice administration system to do away with impunity,
ensure equal access and eradicate any classist and racial bias in its
implementation.

Finally,
in order to pursue this second major goal, our strategy should be to unleash
the power contained in the Bolivarian Constitution, thus allowing for the
ultimate establishment of the new Social and Democratic State and the Rule of
Law and Justice by means of the consolidation and expansion of the people’s
power through the Missions, the Socialist Grand Missions and the self-government
in specific settlements and territories organized into communities, among other
policies.

The
third major historical goal, which is to turn Venezuela into a social, economic
and political power as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and
the Caribbean to ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America is oriented
towards the consolidation of the political, economic and social power for which
we require, among other things, the ultimate establishment of the new Social
and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice and the strengthening of
stability and peace in the nation.

Furthermore,
this historical proposal includes the strategic objective of developing the
national economic power by making an optimal use of the potentialities of our
own resources.Likewise, there is an
intention to expand the military power to defend the Homeland by strengthening
the Venezuelan military industry and strengthening the new Bolivarian military
doctrine and the national geopolitical development.

This
includes a commitment to continue playing a leading role in the process of
construction of the Latin American and Caribbean unity, supporting the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and PETROCARIBE and
providing increased dynamism to the new regional fora: the Union of South
American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean
States (CELAC).

The
fourth major historical goal is about to continue looking for a multicentered
and multipolar world, without imperial domination, with absolute respect for
the self-determination of peoples.Finally, it states the need to continue joining efforts to dismantle the
neo-colonial system of imperial domination by eliminating and reducing to
nonviable levels the economic and technological relations of our country with
the imperial domination centers, among other purposes.

The
fifth major historical goal is about the need to build an eco-socialist
economic production model based on a harmonious relationship between man and
nature that guarantees the rational and optimal use of natural resources while
preserving the processes and cycles of nature.

In
this regard, it is necessary to ratify the defense of the sovereignty of the
Venezuelan State over the vital natural resources.

This
fifth grand historical goal is an appeal to join efforts in support of a world
movement to eradicate the causes and reverse the effects of climate change that
occur as a consequence of the predating capitalist model.

This
Program of Government for National Independence and Socialism that we are
presenting is nothing but an invitation to a broad debate of ideas and
proposals among the Venezuelan people in order to elaborate the Second
Socialist Plan of the Simón Bolívar Nation (2013 – 2019) and continue to create
the great historical democratic and popular block made up by workers, peasants,
students, afro-descendants, indigenous populations, scholars, small and medium
rural and urban producers, business people, teamsters, motorists, teachers, health
professionals and public servants in general, women, military, settlers,
fishing people, cultural representatives, sports people, community and trade
union leaders and specially the Venezuelan youth.

To
achieve that –in the words of our Father, Simón Bolívar- ‘unity is
indispensable for the work of our regeneration’.

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MAJOR HISTORICAL GOALS

I.Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we
have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence.

“Fellow countrymen! I feel embarrassed to say it:
independence is the only asset that we have acquired at the expense of others.
But it opens the door for us to win others back under your sovereign auspices,
with all the splendor of glory and freedom.”

Simón Bolívar, Bogotá, January, 1830.

This year marks the Bicentennial of our Independence.Our times are filled with the heroic legacy
our people have inherited, that is in our blood and in our soul. We are once
again waging a battle, with realized and unrealized dreams in the context of
the Bolivarian revolutionary process, in an all-out struggle to finally recover
and consolidate the Independence that we had lost. We are inspired by the
resistance of the indigenous people, the rebelliousness of African descendants,
the independentist feat, the Federal Revolution, the Restorative Revolution: we
are inspired by Guaicaipuro, Tamanaco, Terepaima, Andresote, José Leonardo
Chirino, Francisco de Miranda, Simón Rodríguez, Antonio José de Sucre, Ezequiel
Zamora and Cipriano Castro.And our
major source of inspiration, our highest referent, is the Liberator Simón
Bolívar.

Historically speaking, the profound mutations of Venezuela,
an oil-producing, obviously “semi-feudal” country, with a prevalence of
latifundia and an export-oriented agriculture, did not generate significant
transformations in the way to steer the nation’s destiny.Quite on the contrary, there was an increased
dependence to the detriment of peasants, workers, laborers and popular
sectors.Foreign domination, with an
unprecedented capital inflow after the appearance of the “black gold”, found
the table set by submissive governments of all kinds.

It was in that context that the oil-exporting Venezuela was
born: it became an oil factory subordinated to the consumerist and belligerent
model imposed by the Yankee imperialism; a repressive and neo-colonial
capitalist regime which had sunk the glorious and noble people of Venezuela
into the harshest material and moral misery had been born.

Only the honorable and courageous resistance put up by the
patriotic majority of the Venezuelan people and its honest leaders in the
struggle against the dictatorships of the 20th century, the civil
and military rebellions of the 1960s, the combative mobilizations of successive
generations of young students and the huge popular and military rebellions of
February 27, 1989; February 4 and November 27, 1992 saved us from the total
destruction as a sovereign nation.

On December 6, 1998, the Bolivarian Revolution, inspired by
the awareness and dignity of the people, initiated the disintegration of the
neo-colonial hegemony.Thirteen years of
Bolivarian Revolution have made us recover political independence.

Today, Venezuela has a sovereign, Bolivarian government that
does not follow the dictates of the empire or the bourgeoisie.Today we have a people who feel very proud of
its cultural and historical roots and we are fully immersed in a process to
recover the control over our natural resources and revenues.

That is why the first major historical goal for the next
socialist and Bolivarian term of office will be to defend and consolidate the
most treasured asset we have acquired: political Independence; reaffirm our
identity as a nation and as part of Our America and continue to move on in the
context of an audacious international geopolitics towards our full economic
independence.

II.Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st
century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage capitalist system, and
ensure “the highest possible levels of social security, political stability and
happiness” for our people.

“We
do not wantsocialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy.
It must be a heroiccreation.” -- José
Carlos Mariátegui, 1928.

The
crisis that is currently facing the so called developed countries is a
consequence of the imbalances and contradictions inherent to the capitalist
system.The voracity to accumulate more
and more wealth is leading not only to the irreversible destruction of the
environment, but also to the multiplication of countless sufferings and
hardships among millions of human beings.Never before had humanity suffered such an atrocious inequality.Meanwhile a handful of persons and companies
monopolize gigantic fortunes made through financial maneuvers and excessive
speculation at the expense of the misery of the majority of humanity.

In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote:

"I am convinced there is only one
way to eliminate the grave evils (of capitalism), namely through the
establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system
which would be oriented toward social goals.”

We, the men and women who are building
the Bolivarian Revolution have shared that conviction from the very beginning
by announcing that we should plot a different course, benefiting from the
experience of other countries while learning from their mistakes; starting from
our own values and learning from the lessons of our Father, the Liberator, and
the great thinkers of Our America.

In 2004, the Bolivarian Revolution
proclaimed its anti-imperialist character and in 2006 it declared itself as
socialist.The principles advocated for by the
Revolution have remained unchanged: we don’t want to stay under capitalism; it
is indispensable that socialism settles in Venezuela as a broad and open way
towards the supreme social happiness.We
are struggling for a society where the great values of Christianity are fully
realized.

During the next socialist and
Bolivarian term we will continue to shape up a system of production relations
based on the values of knowledge and labor, aimed at the satisfaction of the
human needs of our people: food, water, electricity, clothing, housing and
habitat, transportation, health, education, culture, science and technology.

To achieve that it is crucial to
develop the social ownership over the strategic and basic means of production
so that every family and every Venezuelan citizen could fully enjoy their
economic, social, political and cultural rights and live well.

Let us all, I the next term, achieve
the second major historical goal: to
continue building and consolidating the foundations of the Bolivarian socialism
of the 21st century to dismantle the inhuman, predating and
belligerent capital accumulation system andgo beyond the logic of capital that supports it.

III.Turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power
as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to
ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America.

During the next decade, Venezuela should consolidate as a
regional and universal power.We
Venezuelans should feel that the pre-eminent and participatory democracy is in
fact something real and tangible and power should be preserved to ensure the
irreversible character of the Homeland’s sovereignty.

The
progress achieved by the Bolivarian process should serve as a basis to continue
consolidating the political power, recognized as the consummation of the return
of power back to the people and the full exercise of the socialist, pre-eminent
and participatory democracy as the political basis for National Unity.Only in this way could we gain the necessary
strength
to successfully participate in this complex international context.

The advance and consolidation of the participatory and pre-eminent
democracy requires the consolidation of the value of human life and its defense
from an essentially ethic point of view where solidarity and the value of human
beings prevail over capitalist values according to which having is a condition
for being and consuming is a condition for existing. To shield ethics in the
exercise of power is crucial to build the Nation’s Moral Power.

Turning Venezuela’s economy into a
power in areas such as energy, agro-food industry and industry compels us to
consolidate the progress achieved in the development of the regulatory
framework and the sovereign investments policy so that the national wealth is
used to improve the life of our people and build a world of justice and peace.

It is likewise required that the Nation,
the soldiers of the Homeland, with the support of the people, continue to
strengthen the Nation’s military power, which is vital in the all-out defense
of our Homeland.

During the next term of the socialist
and Bolivarian government we will achieve the major goal of unleashing the full
potential of the Homeland of Simón Bolívar by creating a historical popular and
democratic block made up by the working class, the professionals and the urban
and rural small and medium producers.

IV.Contribute to the development of a new international
geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar world that would
allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe and ensure peace
on the planet.

Following
the mandate of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, the foreign policy of the
Bolivarian Revolution will deploy all its efforts to “achieve a system of guarantees
that, whether in times of peace or war, shall be the shield of our new destiny”,
that is, an international environment that guarantees the Independence of the
Homeland aiming at the
full implementation of a sovereign national project.

Inspired by the harmonious vision that characterizes the
cosmogony of our indigenous populations and the Bolivarian concept stating that
the international political action should tend to conform “the equilibrium of
the Universe”, the foreign policy of the Bolivarian Venezuela will promote
the creation of a multipolar world whose ultimate end is the preservation of
peace based on the respect and sovereignty of peoples.

As we have stated
in different fora, this multipolar world shall consist of a multiplicity of force poles, that is,
country groups, so that there could be a better universal equilibrium, more
universal democracy and more equality in the world.

During the nest term of the socialist and Bolivarian government
we will continue to make progress in this indispensable task to ensure peace in
Venezuela and the world.

V.Contribute to preserve life in the planet and save the human
species.

At this historical juncture, the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, in accordance with the ethical principles of socialism, is raising
the flag of a struggle necessary to carry our, both nationally and
internationally, an effort to change the depredating development model that
capitalism has imposed on the world during the last three centuries through the menacing
expansion of the voracious market economy.

In this struggle we will do all the necessary sensible and
well oriented efforts to revert the causes and effects of the devastating
environmental crises that attempt against the life of human beings on Earth.

For that it will be necessary to take short and medium term
actions to recover the equilibrium on Earth and support the productive economic
processes of human beings based on the respect
for the earth cycles and its regeneration processes through the establishment
of a different kind of relationship between human beings and nature.

This new socialist development alternative model requires
the leading participation of men and women, with the new values of the ‘living well’
concept, in support of an ecological and socially sustainable economy.This would only be possible under socialism
as the only alternative to the capitalist depredating model that has already
failed.

This new model will truly implement the mandate given by the
Earth Summit held in 1992: ‘meeting
the needs of the present generation withoutjeopardizing the ability of future generations to
meet their needs.’

Our
country will struggle in the field of sensible environmental issues at the
national, regional and multilateral levels with special emphasis on the
struggle against climate change, the transformation of the unsustainable
production and consumption models and the defense of a new social, ecological
and socialist model as the only planetary alternative to guarantee life.

Within
the United Nations Organizations we will promote the construction of a “New
International Ethical and Social Architecture” that could enable us to define
the New International Agenda for Human and Sustainable Development.

MAJOR
HISTORICAL GOALS AND NATIONAL OBJECTIVES

I.Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we
have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence.

National
Objectives

1.1Guarantee the continuity and
consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution in power.

1.2Preserve and consolidate the country’s
sovereignty over the oil resources and all other natural strategic resources.

1.3Guarantee the sovereign management of
national income.

1.4Achieve food sovereignty to guarantee
the sacred right to food.

1.5Develop our scientific and
technological capabilities according to people’s needs.

1.6Strengthen national defense to protect
independence and national sovereignty, thus preserving our country’s wealth and
resources for future generations.

II.Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st
century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage and destructive capitalist
system and ensure “the highest possible social security, political stability
and happiness” for our people.

National
Objectives

II.

2.1Promote the transformation of the
economic system to carry out the transition to the Bolivarian socialism, moving
from the capitalist oil-oriented rentier-like model to a socialist production
economic model based on the development of the productive forces.

2.2Build a just and egalitarian society.

2.3Consolidate and expand people’s power
and socialist democracy.

2.4Promote a new ethical, moral and
spiritual social orientation based on the liberating values of socialism.

2.5Achieve the ultimate establishment of
the new Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice.

III.Turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power
as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to
ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America.

National
Objectives

III.

3.1Consolidate Venezuela’s role as a World
Energy Power.

3.2Develop the nation’s economic power
based on the optimal use of the potential that exist in our natural resources
in order to provide maximum happiness to our people and create the necessary
material basis for the construction of our Bolivarian socialism.

3.3Organize and expand the military power
to ensure the defense of the Homeland.

3.4Further develop the new national and
regional Latin American and Caribbean geopolitics.

IV.Contribute to the development of a new International
Geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar world that would
allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe and ensure peace
on the planet.

National
Objectives

IV.

4.1Continue playing a leading role in the
construction of the Latin American and Caribbean unity.

4.2Consolidate our identity as a nation
and as part of Our America.

4.3Continue to promote the development of
a multipolar world without imperial domination with full respect for the
self-determination of peoples.

4.4Contribute to dismantle the
anti-historical and nefarious imperial and neo-colonial system.

V.Preserve peace on the planet and save the human species.

National
Objectives

V.

5.1Build and promote the eco-socialist and
productive economic model, based on a harmonious relationship between man and
nature that guarantees the rational, sustainable and optimal use of natural
resources while preserving the processes and cycles of nature.

5.2Protect and defend the permanent
sovereignty of the State over the natural resources for the supreme benefit of
its people, which shall always be its main guarantor.

5.3Defend and protect the Venezuelan
historical and cultural patrimony.

5.4Contribute to the creation of a big
world movement to eradicate the causes and reverse the effects of climate
change that occur as a consequence of the predating capitalist model.

MAJOR HISTORICAL GOALS AND NATIONAL OBJECTIVES

I.Defend, expand and consolidate the most treasured asset we
have reconquered after 200 years: National Independence.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.1Guarantee
the continuity and consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution in power.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.1.1Achieve a solid, combative and joyful
victory in the presidential elections of October 7, 2012, that would raise the
morale of the Venezuelan people and all peoples in the world in their struggle
for emancipation.

1.1.1.1.Consolidate the unity of the working
class, the professionals and the rural and urban small and medium producers; as
well as the social movements and organizations that support the Bolivarian
Revolution.

1.1.2Carry out all the necessary political
actions to guarantee that the electoral process takes place in an environment
of stability and ensure that our people’s sovereign will is peacefully
recognized.

1.1.1.2.Call upon all democratic and honest
sectors of the country to contribute to the peaceful celebration of the
electoral process.

1.1.3Prepare for the defense of the people’s
will through popular organization and the democratic exercise of the State’s
authority.

1.1.3.1.Strengthen and defend the State’s
Public Powers.

1.1.3.2.Strengthen the awareness and the
sectorial and territorial organization of our people.

1.1.3.3.Expand the people’s organization for
the all-out defense of the Homeland.

1.1.3.4.Enhance the capabilities of State’s
security organs to guarantee political stability and peace in the Nation.

1.1.4Strengthen and expand the People’s
Power so that the people are in fact the power.

1.1.5Preserve, recover and the capabilities
of local and regional governments to consolidate the return of the power back
to the people.

1.1.6Continue to build the communications
hegemony, so that all voices are heard in Venezuela.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.2Preserve
and consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the oil resources and all other
natural strategic resources.

The sovereignty over natural resources is a concept that
presupposes the guarantee of using those resources for the humanist and
naturalist purposes of socialism.Thus,
we will have sovereignty to the extent that we are free to exploit, administer
and use them for these purposes. This can not be separate from politics.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.2.1Maintain and guarantee the State’s
control over Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.

1.2.2Guarantee the hegemony of the national
oil production.

1.2.3Secure a majority participation in
joint ventures.

1.2.4Maintain and guarantee the State’s
control over state-run companies that exploit mining resources in the national
territory.

1.2.4.1.Consolidate and strengthen a state-run
company for the exploitation of mining resources.

1.2.5Secure the necessary means for an
effective control over the strategic activities and other related to the
industrial production line for the exploitation of hydrocarbon resources.

1.2.5.1.Strengthen the actions carried out for
an effective control of the strategic activities related to the oil industry.

1.2.5.2.Consolidate an effective control over
the key activities of the oil and gas value chain.

1.2.5.3.Promote and encourage scientific
research and technological development with the purpose of guaranteeing the key
operations of the oil industry.

1.2.6Guarantee the necessary means for the
effective control of the strategic activities related to exploitation of mining
resources.

1.2.7Strengthen the coordination of oil
policies within the OPEC.

1.2.7.1.Advocate for policies for an
appropriate pricing of oil.

1.2.8Create a pricing policy coordination
body for gas.

1.2.8.1.Promote mechanisms for an appropriate
pricing of gas.

1.2.9Create the conditions to exert an
influence on the pricing of minerals.

1.2.10Raise the political and ideological
awareness of the people and the oil and mining workers and encourage their
active participation in the defense of the natural resources of the Nation.

1.2.10.1.Strengthen the political and social
significance of the oil industry.

1.2.10.2.Promote the participation of the
workers in the oil industry’s activities planning.

1.2.10.3.Strengthen and consolidate the
political participation of the people and of oil and mining workers.

1.2.11Encourage and promote coordination
among major oil producing countries.

1.2.12Defend the Nation’s ownership over the
strategic non-oil mineral resources, making the best of the processing of raw
materials and adding value to them. Special attention shall be given to the
productive chain concept over and above the mere exploitation of reserves.In addition to iron and bauxite, whose
production levels have earned Venezuela world recognition, there are other
minerals with a huge potential to serve the best national interests, such as
gold and coltan.

1.2.12.1.Guarantee the sovereign use of the
natural resources of the country to satisfy the domestic demand and the best
national interests.

1.2.12.2.Maximize the State’s fiscal mechanisms
to guarantee the sovereign managements of the benefits that may derive from the
patrimony of the Republic.

1.2.12.3.Elaborate a comprehensive and
prospective inventory based on a national technological platform and promote
the introduction of new techniques aimed at the efficient use of the natural
resources of the country to serve its sovereign interests.

1.2.12.4.Serve the best national interests
through the State planning and administration of all forms of ownership in
strategic sectors, aimed at guaranteeing the incorporation of these resources
to the productive process and ensure people’s enjoyment of and access to all
goods and services.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.3Guarantee
the sovereign management of national income.

The sovereign management of national income presupposes the
ability to earn it and use it for socialist, humanistic and naturalistic
purposes. The State should be so designed to ensure that the administration of
the national income serves the purpose of leveraging the new society.

Given our condition as oil-rentier country –a condition that
should be reversed by means of a transformation towards a socialist productive
model-, our national income is based on the development of oil production.Thus, in order to guarantee a sovereign
management of incomes it is necessary to control oil production through a
national, popular and revolutionary policy.

That policy has to be national because it deals with the
administration of resources that are a property of all Venezuelans, which
compels us to administer them for the benefit of the entire Nation. Through a
national management of these resources we intend to achieve absolute control of
oil production in the country as established by the Constitution of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela which states very clearly that the State, as
representative of the collective interest of all Venezuelans, is the owner of
subsoil resources, and in this particular case it is the owner of petroleum and
gas hydrocarbons.This policy should
integrate the entire country in the defense of our main wealth:It is certainly a policy that concerns all
Venezuelans and there should be no differences whatsoever around it.

Besides, the management of oil production should have a
popular character, because it must be guided by people’s interests and should
promote the participation of the working class to achieve the best possible
interrelation with the people.In order
to develop that policy we require the support of the people.The people must be a key actor in every
sector, not only through the representation of the Venezuelan State but also
through the workers and communities.

Finally, our oil policy should be a revolutionary policy and
this has to do with who is the one who earns the oil income and how that oil
income is earned and distributed. There is no doubt that the State should be
the one that earns and controls the oil income, based on mechanisms that could
maximize its value and make it possible to distribute it for the benefit of the
people and promote a more just and equitable comprehensive social development
of the country.This is the element that
makes it different from any other oil policy.

Therefore, in order to guarantee the national, popular and
revolutionary character of this policy we should put the oil income to the
service of the people.This means that
the State should be the one that earns and controls the oil income.Likewise, in order to make the best use of
that income, the State should follow a sovereign policy that controls the
resources and their maximum value as a fundamental requisite to ensure the
collection of fair revenues.Then we
should see to it that the oil income is invested in projects, plans and
programs that guarantee a comprehensive social development under the guidance
of the National Revolutionary and Bolivarian Government, according to the
development plans of the Nation.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.3.1Maintain and strengthen the current oil
taxation system, which underwent many positive changes since 1998, as is shown
in the diagram below:

Tax

Taxation
system

1998

CURRENT

ISLR

34%

50%

Royalties

1% – 16,67%

30%

Extraction
tax

0%

3,33%

Export
Registry Tax

0%

0,1%

Surface
tax

0%

100 UT x Km2 %

1.3.2Maintain and strengthen efficient
mechanisms to absorb the surplus income as a result of extraordinary and
exorbitant increases in hydrocarbons world prices.

1.3.3Establish and develop a mining taxation
system as well as efficient mechanisms to collect the revenues resulting from
mining.

1.3.3.1.Systematize and control the production
of strategic minerals.

1.3.3.2.Strengthen the revenues collection and
taxation systems.

1.3.3.3.Restructure and establish royalty’s
rates applicable to the sale of different minerals.

1.3.3.4.Review and systematize specific royalty
agreements for each strategic mineral.

1.3.4Establish mechanisms to control the
marketing of strategic materials.

1.3.4.1.Create State entities for the marketing
of strategic materials.

1.3.4.2.Establish transparent mechanisms for
the pricing of strategic materials.

1.3.5.1.Maintain and expand the
Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Fund. The Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Fund has come to be
an extraordinary financing mechanism for the Venezuelan State, since this is a
bilateral cooperation structure agreed between the governments of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the People’s Republic of China, whereby
significant financial resources are received and are later on paid off with the
supply of crude and by-products.

This
instrument has made it possible for the country to consolidate a new
geopolitics based on the diversification of the markets.Likewise, this mechanism allows for the
allocation of resources specifically for the development of the country, the
construction of infrastructure works of national interest, the promotion of
small and medium industries and the strengthening of chains of production and
the supporting infrastructure required to further up economic growth.

This
Joint Fund has been financially structured based on conditions that are highly
beneficial for the country, as different from the reality facing the
international financial markets, since it maximizes the use of energy, thus
achieving a balance in financial costs.

Ate
the close of 2011, the Republic has received a total of 32 million dollars
through this mechanism with which we have developed and are developing:

·Energy development projects, such as
oil refineries, natural gas processing plants, oil and natural gas pipelines,
liquid gas processing plants and projects for the extraction, transportation
and marketing of coal;

·Projects for the transportation of
crude and oil by-products and the construction of tanks;

·Industrial integration projects, such
as the construction of merchant ships and other enterprises associated to the
production of natural gas, the manufacturing of fertilizers and chemical
products;

·Projects for the automotive industry;

·Agro-industrial projects, factories for
the assembling of high-tech products and companies that provide services to the
oil industry. Industries for the manufacturing of steel and aluminum and mining
companies.

That
policy implemented by the Bolivarian Government has allowed us to become
independent from multilateral financing organizations such as the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB).

Thanks
to this initiative we have managed to recover economic autonomy, negotiations
flexibility and national sovereignty to be able to establish alliances with
other non-traditional financing sources.

1.3.5.2.Promote the creation of financing
mechanisms similar to the Chinese-Venezuelan Joint Fund.

1.3.5.3.Promote the creation of trust funds for
the financing of infrastructure projects.

1.3.6Maintain and consolidate the cooperation
and complementarity agreements with allied countries.

The
Energy Cooperation Agreements were created after a proposal made by the
Bolivarian Government to materialize the energy unit among peoples.This will work as a geopolitical enabling
factor that could allow for the use of energy resources to promote the
establishment of more just, fraternal and efficient relations in the struggle
against poverty thus reducing the economic and social asymmetries.

The
Energy Cooperation Agreements welcome the principles of energy integration,
solidarity, complementarity, fair trade, promotion of investments in Latin
America and special and differential treatment to nations according to their capabilities.

These
initiatives share the historical and fundamental purpose of combining the
capabilities and strengths of the countries that are parties to them aiming at
a joint definition of great lines of common political action among States that
share a common vision about the exercise of sovereignty, thus developing an
identity of their own.

Argentina,
Uruguay, Nicaragua and Cuba have been signatories of some of the main energy
agreements.These agreements have worked
as payment mechanism for the oil, goods and services that are necessary for the
country’s social comprehensive development, namely, agricultural products,
machinery, power plants, health services, medical equipment, among others.

1.3.6.2.Strengthen agreements in the context of
PETROCARIBE.

The
PETROCARIBE energy cooperation agreement was signed by 14 nations of the
Caribbean region.It was intended to
solve the existing asymmetries in the access to energy resources through a new
favorable, fair and equitable commercial exchange system among the countries of
the Caribbean region.

PETROCARIBE
has been conceived as an alliance capable of ensuring the coordination and
articulation of the policies related to energy, technological cooperation,
capacity building, and development of the energy infrastructure as well as the
use of alternative sources of energy.Its main objective is to contribute to energy security, social and
economic development and the integration of Caribbean and Central American
countries through the sovereign use of the energy resources.

At
the close of 2011 18 nations had adhered to this important integration and
cooperation mechanism.

1.3.6.3.Strengthen ALBA.

1.3.7Design and implement new and efficient
mechanisms to ensure people’s participation in oil income management through
investments and savings.

1.3.7.1.Strengthening and expansion of new
saving mechanisms for the Venezuelan people, such as the National Workers’
Savings Fund and the Popular Savings Fund.

We intend to fully develop our agricultural production
potential: 3. 665.780 hectares of high fertility lands for the production of
vegetables; 12.830.230 hectares of low fertility lands to grow vegetables and
pastures and 27.493.350 hectares for rangelands and forestry.

Inventory of agricultural lands in Venezuela

Nº

Classification

Area

(hectares)

Percentage of the national area

(%)

Potential use of land

1

Lands
for the production of vegetables

3.665.780,00

4%

Vegetables

2

Low
fertility lands for vegetables and pastures(limitations)

12.830.230,00

14%

Vegetables and cattle

3

Rangelands
and/or forestry

27.493.350,00

30%

Forestry and cattle

Total:

43.989.360
hectares

The agricultural lands inventories that have been made
in the country have shown that approximately 2 per cent of the national
territory has no limitations In terms of climate, soil, drainage or unfavorable
topographic conditions.

We have also realized that through the mass
application of the technologies developed by our agricultural workers and
research centers we could reach a potential figure of 4 per cent that could be
used for a wide range of uses (food crops, grasslands or forestry); some 14 per
cent could be devoted to a limited number of crops (food crops, grasslands or forests
resistant to excessive humidity, drought and low fertility lands; 30 per cent
to crops, grasslands and forests highly resistant to strong limitations and low
fertility lands, sever droughts or floods; and the remaining territory shall be
left for natural covers such as forests or savannahs for the purpose of
conservation or protection orto offer
environmental services such as the production of water and the preservation of
biodiversity.

These potential and feasible figures, when compared
with the population rates that we expect to have in the next decades, indicate
that we have enough land to meet our needs in terms of food production and
environmental services, provided we make a rational use of them.

In the context of the Great Mission Agro-Venezuela,
whereby a total of 684 883 producers have been registered in the entire
country, we can satisfy our food needs with our national production, with
emphasis on the productions of cereals, legumes, root crops and tubers,
vegetables, beef, poultry, pork, eggs and milk, as well as marine and inland
fisheries and aquiculture, thus increasing the daily availability of locally
produced energy, proteins, fatsand
carbohydrates per inhabitant to meet up to 90 per cent of the nutritional
requirements of Venezuelans, while creating a surplus production in cereals,
fruits and tropical crops for export.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.4.1Eliminate latifundia once and for
all.To carry out an agro-ecological
organization and zoning process based on the use of the land, and creates a
rural cadastre system to ensure a fair access and rational use of soils.

1.4.1.1.Increase the agricultural area for
short season vegetables by at least 42 per cent, going from 2.88 million
hectares to 4.12 million hectares per year at the end of this period.

1.4.1.2.Expand the agricultural area under
irrigation from 178 000 hectares to 538 000 hectares for the year 2019, which
accounts for a 202 per cent increase.

Irrigation systems

Area under irrigationYear 2012 (hectares)

Area under
irrigationYear 2019 (hectares)

% Increase

Irrigation
System Río Guárico

32.000

38.000

19%

Irrigation
System Río Tiznados

3.000

32.000

967%

Irrigation System Jose Inácio de Abreu e Lima

1.400

35.000

2.400%

Irrigation
System Las Majaguas

21.450

26.000

21%

Irrigation
System Planicie de Maracaibo

2.600

20.000

669%

Irrigation
System Valle de Quíbor

1.200

26.000

2.000%

Small
and Medium Irrigation System

116.685

361.723

210%

NATIONAL TOTAL

178.335

538.723

202%

1.4.2Accelerate the democratization of the
access by peasants, producers as well as the different collective forms of
production and socialist enterprises to the resources necessary for production
(land, water, irrigation, seeds and capital) while promoting the rational and
sustainable use of them.

1.4.2.1.Incorporate to the agricultural
machinery stock 110 000 tractors, 30 000 harvesters and 400 seeding tools based
on the development of the national assembling and manufacturing industry.
Collective forms of production shall be given priority to use those.

1.4.2.2.Strengthen the highway program
(maintenance and construction of new highways) and the rural electrification
program with the creation of highway equipment brigades and units by the
National Bolivarian Militia, the Peasants and Community Councils, the Free and Associated
Producers Networks, the Mayors’ Offices, the Provincial Governments and the
National Institute for Rural Development.

1.4.3Consolidate a set of public policies in
support of production, the organization of the rural sector and the
participation of peasants’ people’s power organs in planning, such as increased
investments by private banks and the State, under the guidance of the
Bolivarian Government, in the comprehensive rural development through the
construction of infrastructural works, the financing of small and medium
producers, the implementation of projects to produce food and the development
of and investment in science and technology; the consolidation of socialist
agro-industrial production systems; access to plant and animal genetic resources
adapted to tropical conditions; the promotion of fisheries development through
the modernization of the fleet and the maritime and river fisheries
infrastructure and the local production of inputs for agricultural production
such as fertilizers, products for the protection of crops, additives,
veterinary drugs and food and vitamins for animals, thus promoting the use of
state-of-the-art technology to protect the naturalphysical environment.

1.4.3.1.Increase of the national food
production (vegetables, livestock, aquiculture and fisheries) by 45 per cent,
from 29.4 million tones a year to 42.7 million tones a year.

1.4.3.2.Increase the production of cereals by
at least 70 per cent, from 5.13 million tones a year to 8.73 million tones a
year.

1.4.3.3.Increase in the production of legumes
(65 per cent); oilseeds (73 per cent); tropical crops: coffee and cocoa (46 per
cent); vegetables (40 per cent).

1.4.3.4.Increase in livestock production by 38
per cent, from 5.32 million tones a year to 7.35 million tones a year.

1.4.3.5.Increase livestock production by at
least 45 per cent; pork production by at least 43 per cent; poultry production
by at least 45 per cent and eggs production by at least 44 per cent.

1.4.4Strengthen the infrastructure,
development and functioning of the big socialist primary agricultural
production clusters and the Big Irrigation Systems, which shall be managedby socialist enterprises, giving priority to
the integration of industrial productive processes.

1.4.4.1.Advance the Comprehensive Rural
Development Project ‘Delta del Orinoco’
in Islas Cocuina, Manamito and Guara in the states of Delta Amacuroand Monagas.

1.4.4.2.Advance the Socialist Comprehensive
Agrarian Development Project ‘Píritu-Becerra’
in the state of Guárico.

1.4.4.3.Implement the Socialist Agrarian
Development Project ‘Eje Elorza-Mantecal’
in the state of Apure.

1.4.4.4.Implement the Socialist Agro-ecological
Development Project ‘Llano Alto’ in
the states of Barinas and Trujillo.

1.4.4.5.Implement the Plan for the
Comprehensive Agricultural Development of the municipality of Guanarito, in the states of Portuguesa,
Barinas and Cojedes.

1.4.4.6.Implement the Socialist Comprehensive
Development Project ‘Paguey-Santo
Domingo’ of the municipality of Barinas
in the state of Barinas.

1.4.4.7.Implement the
Socialist Comprehensive Agrarian Development Project in the Area of Influence
of the ‘Biruaca-Achaguas’ axis in the
states of Apure and Guárico.

1.4.5Consolidate the networks of production
and distribution of products ready for consumption and the agro-industrial
processing system.

1.4.5.1.Begin the construction of the Bovine Milk
Processing Plant ‘Dabajuro’, in the
state of Falcón.

1.4.5.2.Begin the assembly and starting up of
the slaughterhouse and cold storage unit in Mantecal
in the state of Apure.

1.4.5.3.Begin the construction, assembly,
starting-up and refurbishment of a slaughterhouse and cold storage unit in the
municipality of Libertad in the state
of Anzoátegui.

1.4.5.4.Conclude the project for the storage of
cereals and oilseeds of the Ago-Industrial Complex ‘Vuelvan Caras’ in the state of Portuguesa.

1.4.5.5.Begin the construction of cellars for
the storage of seeds in the states of Portuguesa, Carabobo and Lara.

1.4.5.6.Begin the construction of 14 fishing
works houses in the states of Carabobo, Aragua, Apure, Falcón, Nueva Esparto,
Sucre, Miranda and Portuguesa.

1.4.6Create, consolidate and support distribution
centers both at the local level and in big cities for the sale and direct
distribution of products ready for consumption, thus ensuring appropriate
access by the population and a fair pay to peasants work and encouraging the
development of export trade.

1.4.6.2.Strengthen and modernize the social and
state regulation system to combat usury and speculation in the purchase and distribution
of foodstuffs, since they are considered as an essential asset for human life.

1.4.7Consolidate the agro-industrial
apparatus under the control of socialist enterprises, thus ensuring at least 60
per cent of the storage and processing capacity for several commodities
(cereals, oilseeds, sugar, beef and milk) and 30 per cent for all other
foodstuffs.

1.4.7.1.Finish the construction of the
Industrial Complex for the Manufacture of Agro-industrial Processing Plants and
Machinery and Irrigation Equipment- also called the “Factory of Factories”- in
Anaco, in the state of Anzoátegui.

1.4.7.2.Finish the construction of the Eggs
Incubating Plant ‘Loma Larga’ in the
state of Anzoátegui.

1.4.7.3.Build a Fertilizers Storehouse in Planta Morón in the state of Carabobo.

1.4.7.4.Consolidate the breeding and
re-breeding stocks of hens and chickens in the states of Anzoátegui, Guárico
and Portuguesa (ALBA Poultry Joint Venture).

1.4.7.5.Install the freezing tunnel at the
Poultry Processing Plant of the municipality of Carlos Arvelo in the state of
Carabobo (ALBA Poultry Joint Venture).

1.4.7.6.Build the Genetic Center ‘Josefa Camejo’ for the production of
high genetic quality F-1 pigs, located at the state of Falcón (ALBA Pig
Production Joint Venture).

1.4.7.7.Finish the construction of the
Commercial Farm ‘José Leonardo Chirino’
for F-1 pigs, located in the State of Lara (ALBA Pig Production Joint Venture).

1.4.7.8.Build a shipyard’s storehouse
(PESCALBA).

1.4.7.9.Build the Venezuelan Grand National Pauny Tractors’ Factory –phase II.
(Mechanical Works Enterprise ‘Pedro
Camejo’) in El Sombrero, in the
state of Guárico.

1.4.7.10.Create four (4) ‘Florentino’ Socialist Genetic Technical Centers for bovine cattle,
located in the states of Bolívar, Guárico, Anzoátegui and Cojedes (INIA).

1.4.7.11.Finish the construction of the
Industrial Plant for the Assembly and Manufacturing of Grain Harvesting
Machines –phase II- (Mechanical Works Enterprise ‘Pedro Camejo’) in Tinaco, state of Cojedes.

1.4.7.12.Establish a Center for the genetic
Improvement of Shrimps in the state of Sucre.

1.4.8Develop a support and incentives system
to promote the export of agricultural products.

1.4.8.1.Create export joint ventures with
allied countries such as China, Russia and Iran.

1.4.8.2.Design and implement a policy to
promote export to the Caribbean countries and the northern part of Brazil.

1.4.8.3.Define, in the context of international
and integration agreements, the commercial policies aimed at the protection of
the national agriculture.

1.4.9Establish mechanisms to implement a new
revolutionary institutional system that ensures the participation of small and
medium producers in the decision-making process in the area of agriculture,
through the peasants’ councils and the networks of free and associated
producers.

1.4.10Promote diversified production models
based on small-scale family farming and the urban, peri-urban and indigenous
agriculture, with the aim of validating and disseminating traditional and
sustainable modes of production to ensure at least 50 per cent of the
production output.

1.4.10.1.Promote innovation and production of
technological inputs for small-scale agriculture with the aim of increasing
efficiency and productivity.

1.4.10.2.Promote the organization and creation
of people’s power organs and the collective forms of production for the
development of productive processes at a local level through the expansion of
schools and the teaching of a cadres training course.

1.4.10.3.Promote the development and use of
low-input technologies by reducing emissions that are harmful to the
environment.

1.4.11Promote diversified production models
based on small-scale family farming and the urban, peri-urban and indigenous
agriculture, with the aim of validating and disseminating traditional and
sustainable modes of production to ensure at least 50 per cent of the
production output.

1.4.11.1.Promote innovation and production of
technological inputs for small-scale agriculture with the aim of increasing
efficiency and productivity.

1.4.11.2.Promote the organization and creation
of people’s power organs and the collective forms of production for the
development of productive processes at a local level through the expansion of
schools and the teaching of a cadres training course.

1.4.11.3.Promote the development and use of
low-input technologies by reducing emissions that are harmful to the
environment.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.5Develop
our scientific and technological capabilities according to people’s needs.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.5.1Consolidate a scientific, technological
and innovative style with a transformational, diverse, creative and profoundly
dynamic style that could be a guarantee to independence and economic
sovereignty.This initiative shall be
oriented towards the best use of the national potential and capabilities in
such a way that it recognizes different actors, dynamics and organizational
forms in the generation of knowledge, thus contributing to the construction of
the Socialist Productive Model, the strengthening of socialist ethics and the
appropriate satisfaction of the needs of the Venezuelan people.

1.5.1.1.Develop science, technology and
innovation in close coordination with the national productive structure, so as
to create the conditions necessary to pursue economic sovereignty and
technological independence as an indispensable condition for the appropriate
satisfaction of social needs.This
guideline should be developed through the design and implementation of
transdisciplinary projects, the generation of scientific, technological an
innovative knowledge aimed at solving concrete problems of the national
productive sector, thus promoting the development of industrial scaling aimed
at making the best use of potentialities with an effective technological
transfer.A National Network of
Technological Parks will be created for the development and application of
Science, Technology and Innovation in those thematic spaces as well as in
Industrial Parks in general.

1.5.1.2.Strengthen and orienting science,
technology and innovation towards an efficient use of national potentialities
and capabilities aiming at a sustainable development and the satisfaction of
social needs.Research shall be oriented
towards strategic areas defined as a priority in terms of the solution of
social problems. We shall promote the creation of innovative units associated
to socio-productive units in well organized communities, taking advantage of
the creation of national and regional scientific and technological cooperation
networks with the aim of strengthening the capabilities of the National
Science, Technology and Innovation System.

1.5.1.3.Guarantee timely access and appropriate
use of ICTs through the development of the necessary infrastructure and
applications by adopting a critical approach and taking care of social needs
and information dissemination.New
contents shall be created based on the national, multi-ethnic and
multi-cultural values of our peoples.The principles inherent to the Bolivarian Socialism shall be likewise
promoted.

1.5.1.4.Develop education to further up
science, work and production and support the scientific and technological
revolution by linking science and technology to production and work, in order
to build the scientific knowledge and disseminate it from the collective
experience and through the different institutions and organizations of the
National Education System. In this regard we shall promote the consolidation of
citizens’ participation in public management in the thematic areas and
territories related to science, technology and innovation.

1.5.2Consolidate the development of the
educational infrastructure in the country including universities as well as
technical, medium-level and in-job training institutions which educate citizens
for the liberating work and establish a direct association between the
infrastructure for training and innovation and the productive sector, either
through the production units or the industrial parks created as part of the
strategy for the transformation of the productive sector.

1.5.2.1.Update and orient training programs
according to the needs and demands of the national productive system with the
aim of ensuring technical, professional and in-job training while promoting
patriotic values and a critical approach as part of the organization for the
liberating work.

1.5.2.2.Promote the in-job training program at
factories or production units not only to improve training but also work
culture, the organization of workers’ councils and the implementation of the
‘Point and Circle’ strategy as substantial elements in the change of the
productive model.

1.5.3Guarantee the conditions that would
ensure access by the organizations and every person within the national
territory to timely and ethical communication with the purpose of contributing
to the satisfaction of people’s needs as well as the necessary training for the
use, creation and dissemination of contents that could make our people to live
well.

1.5.3.1.Develop information applications using
a critical approach and taking into account social needs.

1.5.3.2.Generate and disseminate contents based
on the national, multiethnic and multicultural values of our peoples together
with the principles inherent to the Bolivarian Socialism.

1.5.3.3.Guarantee the creation and acquisition
of knowledge for development and production and the good use of ICTs.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

1.6Strengthen
national defense to protect independence and national sovereignty, thus
preserving our country’s wealth and resources for future generations.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1.6.1Improve the country’s defensive
capacity through the consolidation and strengthening of the territorial
redistribution of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.1.1.Update the plans for the territorial
and Comprehensive Defense adapted to the geo-strategic and socio-political
characteristics of our Homeland.

1.6.1.2.Increase the military operational
activity in our country’s borders with the purpose of controlling and
neutralizing transnational crime and groups that perpetrate violent actions.We shall likewise improve the defense of our
territory.

1.6.1.3.Establish, restructure, re-equip and
relocate our military units according to the demands of the Comprehensive
Defense of our Homeland and its sovereignty.

1.6.1.4.Prepare the people for the Comprehensive
Defense of the country at all levels of the State’s public sector, together
with the people and the National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.1.5.Promote people’s active participation
in the consolidation of the civic and military unity.

1.6.2Strengthen and improve the Military
Intelligence and Counter-intelligence System for the Comprehensive Defense of
our Homeland.

1.6.2.1.Consolidate the Territorial Military
Intelligence and Counter-intelligence System.

1.6.2.2.Generalize in an orderly way the search
for information useful to guarantee the security and defense of the Homeland.

1.6.2.3.Update and adapt the curricula in the
area of intelligence and counter-intelligence according to the Bolivarian
Military Ideas.

1.6.2.4.Promote the adoption of the legal
framework necessary to develop intelligence and counter-intelligence within our
National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.3Strengthen the National Bolivarian
Militia.

1.6.3.1.Promote the development of the
Territorial Militias with the aim of securing the necessary forces for the
Comprehensive Defense of the Homeland.

1.6.3.2.Increase and strengthen the use of the
Militias to support national development.

1.6.3.3.Encourage the creation of an increased
number of Combatant Corps at every level of the Venezuelan State.

1.6.3.4.Encourage the incorporation of a bigger
number of compatriots to the National Bolivarian Militia.

1.6.3.5.Design strategies to guarantee the
participation of the people in the struggle under any circumstances, however
adverse.

1.6.4Increase and maintain the Operational
Preparedness of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces for the Comprehensive
Defense of the Homeland.

1.6.4.1.Update, preserve, store and maintain
the equipment and weapon systems of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.4.2.Strengthen the logistic support and
military health systems of our National Bolivarian Armed Forces.

1.6.4.3.Increase the reserves of materials,
systems and equipment to support the Comprehensive Defense of the Homeland.

1.6.4.4.Increase the acquisition of arms
systems and materials to equip the different units.

II.Continue building the Bolivarian socialism of the 21st
century in Venezuela as an alternative to the savage capitalist system, and
ensure “the highest possible levels of social security, political stability and
happiness” for our people.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

2

2.1Promote
the transformation of the economic system to carry out the transition to the
Bolivarian socialism, moving from the capitalist oil-oriented rentier-like
model to a socialist production economic model based on the development of the
productive forces.

“Spanish America asked for two
revolutions at the same time – the publicand the economic…”

Simón Rodríguez.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.1.1Promote new forms of organization of
production that would provide society with the means of production and
encourage the creation of a new productive structure under a new transformation
for the transition to socialism.

2.1.1.1.Incorporate new productive schemes
oriented towards socialism that could spin off productive and exchange
relations based on complementarity and solidarity which, at the same time, will
become the productive system that will support a new transformation. These
production grafts shall associate with each other as conglomerates, which will
enhance their dimension.

2.1.1.2.Promote the democratization of the
means of production and promote the articulation of new forms of ownership,
placing them at the service of society.

2.1.1.3.Strengthen centralized planning and the
budgeting system for the development and appropriate orientation of the
national strategic chains.

2.1.2Build and expand productive chains oriented
towards the satisfaction of social needs in the process of construction of
socialism.

2.1.2.1.Generate a system of integration of
productive networks that will make it possible to articulate the value chain of
raw materials, diversifying production in order to satisfy people’s social
needs.

2.1.2.2.Improve the national productive
structure and update it from the technological point of view to provide the
material basis necessary to articulate it with the new model for the
construction of socialism.

2.1.2.3.Strengthen those productive sectors
where the country has comparative advantages, whereby surplus production is an
alternative economic basis to the single-export product model.

2.1.2.4.Create a system of industrial parks for
the thematic strengthening of productive chains and the articulation of the
national industrial system which includes logistic facilities, training,
technology and a system of distribution of inputs and products at fair prices.

2.1.3Develop inclusive and participatory
management models for inclusive productive units with the workers, in line with
national policies, as well as a work culture opposed to the oil rentier-like
approach to dismantle the existing oligopolistic and monopolistic structure.

2.1.3.1.Build a work culture opposed to a
rentier-like approach by supporting training based on the praxis of work and
the awareness of workers as active subjects in the process of transformation of
and democratic participation in work aimed at serving the best national
interests.

2.1.3.2.Promote a new management model in
productive units –direct and indirect social ownership units- that is
efficient, sustainable and that generates social and economic benefits to serve
the best national interests.

2.1.3.3.Develop a system of incentives to
encourage the creation of small and medium private enterprises and joint
ventures in a context of maximum social co-responsibility of the productive
apparatus, thus recognizing the work of men and women entrepreneurs.

2.1.3.4.Contribute to the socio-economic
wellbeing of the areas where the productive units are located, following the
‘point and circle’ strategy and making room for people’s participation in the
social and economic processes as well as in social comptrollership.Bigger scale units will promote the
ramification of inputs at the community level to contribute to satisfy the
needs of our communities.

2.1.4Strengthen the system of direct and
alternative distribution of inputs and products and combating speculation,
which is inherent to capitalism.

2.1.4.1.Generate and strengthen the
State-owned, community and mixed chains of distribution of final and
intermediate consumption products as an alternative offered to the population
in terms of direct savings.

2.1.4.2.Establish systems of transportation and
distribution that ensures a direct flow of commodities from the production units
to consumers, distribution centers or intermediate production units.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

2.2Build
a just and egalitarian society.

For the period 2013-2019 we will take up the challenge of
consolidating the essence of the Bolivarian Revolution, which is social
justice. The continuity of the Revolution should guarantee the irreversibility
of the progress achieved in the area of human rights; the conditions that will
make it impossible to go back to poverty; the conditions that have made it
possible to consolidate the struggle against social inequalities; the progress
achieved in the liberation of the people; the leading participation of the
people in social missions.To advance
towards the construction of a just and egalitarian society is to move on down the
path to socialism; it means to have a future full of rewarding living
conditions created by the people themselves.

In this new stage, to continue building a just and
egalitarian society requires the development of a system of social prevention,
protection and security that should have a new political quality, since it is
intended to become the most powerful instrument to live by living, as a
condition of the Venezuelan people’s liberation, independence and sovereignty
in their transit towards socialism.For
that, it is necessary to achieve extraordinary progress in fundamental
processes that presuppose a radical social transformation, which are strategic
objectives for the revolution.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.2.1Continue to promote the transformation
of the essential relations of the people with Nature, the State, society, the
working process and ideas.

2.2.1.1.Develop socialist relationships among
workers and with the working process.

2.2.1.2.Guarantee the physical, cognitive and
moral development of workers as well as safe, healthy and satisfactory working
conditions and social security.

2.2.1.3.Eradicate the working relations
disguised as wage-earning employment.

2.2.1.5.Guarantee the provision of universal
basic benefits related to old age, subsistence, disability, invalidity,
unemployment, severance and unemployment, resulting from the relationship
established with the labor market.

2.2.1.6.Harmonize family life with labor life.

2.2.1.7.Consolidate values that safeguard
identity and strengthen the sovereignty and defense of the country based on the
physical, spiritual and intellectual enjoyment and the recognition of our
cultural and natural patrimony.

2.2.1.8.Achieve a sustained increase in the
national production and distribution of cultural products with the production
of 15 000 000 copies of all types of magazines -2 500 000 every year- and a 200
per cent increase in the production of books.

2.2.1.9.Improve the cultural infrastructure at
the service of the people, with the construction of 336 Book-Reading Rooms –one
in every municipality- equipped with appropriate furniture and reading
material.

2.2.1.10.Promote the development of cultural
manifestations in the country.

2.2.1.11.2.2.1.11. Support the community
cultural organizations.

2.2.1.12.2.2.1.12. Expand the network of
intellectuals and artists and increase the number of cooperation agreements for
the production of cultural good and services.

2.2.1.13.2.2.1.13. Consolidate the leading
participation of the people in all cultural and sport manifestations, focused
on the creation of an awareness oriented towards the generation of
transformations for the construction of socialism.

2.2.1.14.2.2.1.14. Universalize social security
for artists, creators and cultural exponents.

2.2.1.15.

2.2.1.16.Display the community and historical
identity (Mission Cultura Corazón
Adentro).

2.2.1.17.Promote the signing of integration
intercultural agreements.

2.2.1.18.Improve the conditions that guarantee
the enjoyment of everybody’s rights, respecting the social, juridical,
physical, age and cultural diversity present among individuals or groups of
individuals.

2.2.1.19.Improve the habitat and infrastructure
for indigenous populations.

2.2.1.20.Accelerate the demarcation of their
territories by issuing title deeds of land in favor of indigenous communities
and providing decent houses for every indigenous family facing vulnerable
conditions, with respect for their cultural options.

2.2.1.21.Encourage the provision of education,
training and funds for the socio-productive units with the consolidation of 2
345 community councils and socialist indigenous communities through the
financing of projects, with respect for their traditional practices and
organizational forms.

2.2.1.22.Expand the presence of the Missions and
Grand Socialist Missions in indigenous communities, recognizing and respecting
their culture and traditions.

2.2.1.23.Consolidate gender equality based on
socialist values.

2.2.1.24.Strengthen the leading political
participation of women in the People’s Power organs.

2.2.1.25.Promote an economic knowledge oriented
towards solidarity and production and based on socialist principles among the
working-age population so that they take part in the national productive
system.

2.2.1.26.Encourage the practice of socialist
ethics at the recreational spaces for young people, oriented towards peace, the
practice of sports and the social coexistence within the community, by
providing 900 000 youths with recreational and sports programs and
incorporating 5 200 000 youths to programs aimed at the wholesome use of their
leisure.

2.2.1.27.Promote spaces for comprehensive
education with the participation of volunteers who will take care of
approximately 4.000.000 youths facing a situation of vulnerability.This project will count of the assistance
offered by 400 000 youths who are trained to prevent the causes that generate
such vulnerabilities.

2.2.1.28.Strengthen the youth’s leading
organization and participation with the construction of 3 000 Youth People’s
Power Councils.

2.2.1.29.Advance in the social transformation of
persons who are in prison through the incorporation of their family members,
community councils, social organizations as well as any other form of
organization to the activities associated to inmates’ life in prison.

2.2.1.30.Combat impunity and delays in legal
processes and in the provision of several benefits, in close coordination with
the Prosecutor’s Office, the Defense and the judicial authorities.

2.2.1.31.Improve and build infrastructure
facilities for the inmate community.

2.2.1.32.Establish the socialist production
inmate communities.

2.2.1.33.Introduce alternatives to the
completion of the period of sentence.

2.2.1.34.Create appropriate conditions to
support inmates after they are released from prison.Their criminal records shall not be disclosed
and they will be incorporated to social, educational and labor programs.

2.2.1.35.Strengthen the communicational and
educational work in the interest of consolidating the values and principles of
the Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law and Justice, as established
in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as the
awareness about environmental protection as a condition to preserve life in the
planet.

2.2.1.36.Develop a general policy to provide
scientific information about the need to protect the biological diversity of
our country, particularly the biodiversity of our parks as well as our water
reservoirs and their significance for the entire planet.

2.2.1.37.Create the necessary conditions to
promote an environmental culture oriented towards recreation and sports
practicing, based on our national values and as a way to achieve peace,
liberate people’s consciousness and live in harmonious coexistence.

2.2.1.38.Generalize the practice of sports.

2.2.1.39.Create the National Fund of Sports,
Physical Activity and Physical Education to encourage the practice of sports.

2.2.1.40.Expand the infrastructure of the
Mission Barrio Adentro Deportivo to
every single parish and all sports facilities.

2.2.1.41.Offer a comprehensive support to
highly-performing athletes and sport heroes; develop medicine and science in
support of highly performing athletes; establish the Highly-Performing Athletes
Center and the National Sports Talents School.

2.2.1.42.Contribute to the systematic, mass and
diversified practice of physical activity in communities and public spaces
through the incorporation of physical activity into the Bolivarian Education
System.

2.2.2Create the necessary conditions to
ensure the highest possible social security and happiness for Venezuelan
families, based on the values and principles of respect, equality, solidarity
and co-responsibility, as part of the social justice which is the essential
element in the construction of socialism.

2.2.2.1.Consolidate the struggle against the
determinants of the conditions of inequality that need to be wiped out in order
to eradicate extreme poverty.

2.2.2.4.Reduce the number of persons facing a
situation of vulnerability.

2.2.2.5.Ensure that Venezuela keeps on being
the biggest classroom in the world through the consolidation and expansion of
the entry into educational institutions, continuity of studies and graduation
to guarantee people’s right to basic education in the interest of training the
citizens that the Republic needs.

2.2.2.6.Expand the schooling coverage to
include the entire population, particularly excluded persons, as follows:

a.Nursery
schools: increase enrolment from 13 per cent to 40 per cent;

c.Primary
Education; consolidate universal access to this level through a 100 per cent
increase of the target population;

d.Medium-Level
and General Education:to achieve a 100
per cent increase in the enrolment so that the entire population could attain a
general medium-level or technical medium-level education as an average;

e.Increase the technical education enrolment by
40 per cent.

2.2.2.7.Develop a bilingual intercultural
education.

2.2.2.8.Expand the schools and sports
infrastructure and staff and continue to introduce ICT’s in the educational
process.

2.2.2.9.Adapt the educational system to the productive
model.

2.2.2.10.Strengthen and encourage research in
the educational process.

2.2.2.11.Consolidate the transformation of
universities focused on comprehensive education, intellectual production and
social interaction to ensure the development of the creative potential and
problem-solving capabilities in the face of the most pressing problem facing
the country and the strategic objectives established in the National Project ‘Simón Bolívar’.

2.2.2.12.Consolidate the constitutional right to
university education for all, with emphasis on the enrolment, continuity of
studies and graduation, by means of a 90 per cent increase in the incorporation
of senior-high graduates to university education.

2.2.2.13.Strengthen the policy of
territorialization and relevance of management for the development of
university education through an increase of the municipal enrolment by 60 per
cent thanks to the Sucre and Alma Mater Missions.

2.2.2.14.Develop training and research programs
and projects to give a response to the productive needs and potentialities
necessary for the development of the country.

2.2.2.15.Expand the scientific, technical and
humanistic capabilities to ensure security and sovereignty in the production of
material inputs, as well as the artistic theoretical and methodological
production required to live well by means of a 70 per cent increase in the
financing of research and innovation oriented to projects that will enhance
people’s happiness.

2.2.2.16.Guarantee health care for the people
through the consolidation of the national public health system, based on the
strengthening of the Barrio Adentro
Mission, the People’s Power work and the articulation among all levels and
areas of the system of protection, promotion, prevention and comprehensive
assistance to individual and collective health. Thus, the expectations are: (a)
To increase by 100 per cent the comprehensive medical assistance coverage in
primary health care through Barrio
Adentro I and II, and in specialized health care through Barrio Adentro III and IV; (b) to reduce
the maternal mortality rate by 37.3 per every 100 000 live births.To reduce the under-five mortality rate to
11.7 per every 1000 live births.

2.2.2.17.Consolidate the new institutional
character of the National Public Health System built upon Barrio Adentro which serves as an integrating hub of the single
services network under a single governing structure, with guaranteed financing,
sovereign scientific and technological development and quality human talent in
favor of international solidarity.

2.2.2.18.Guarantee healthy food and appropriate
nutrition throughout the entire life-cycle, according to the constitutional
precepts related to health, sovereignty and food security, with a 70 per cent
increase in the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding.

2.2.2.19.Promotion of social territories that
will strengthen the coexistence in solidarity and citizens’ safety in the
everyday life of the family and the community, as well as the sense of
liberation in the event of uncontrollable risks.

2.2.2.20.Provide the population with
environments that favor physical activity, recreation, culture and sports at
all educational, labor and residential centers in order to achieve a 12 per
cent reduction in the number of persons from 7 to 14 years of age who are
overweight (weight-size) and reduce the number of persons with sedentary life
styles by 50 per cent.

2.2.2.21.Encourage a leading role by the
People’s Power in the inter-sectorial articulation spaces and at the
institutional level to promote life and health quality by means of: (a) an
increase in the number of graduates from different professions integrated to
the National Public Health System –the goal is to achieve the figure of 80 000
graduates; (b) a 100 per cent increase in the participation of the People’s
Power organs in the planning, implementation,supervision and evaluation of the health activities carried out in
theCommunity Comprehensive Health
Areas; (c) increase in the number of people’s healthorganizations and Health Committees
–Community Councils- to 25 000.

2.2.2.22.Consolidate the sovereign capabilities
and the scientific and technological independence required to produce and
guarantee the availability of Human talents and the scientific and technical
resources and inputs necessary to guarantee people’s health by means of a 40
per cent increase in the number of essential medicines produced locally; and a
60 per cent increase in the local production of inputs required by the National
Public Health System.

2.2.2.23.Consolidate and improve the conditions
that will guarantee food security and sovereignty.

2.2.2.24.Increase the national production of new
products or products whose national production is relatively weak, to cover 30
per cent of the national demand of oils and fats and 50 per cent of the
national demand of milk by-products.

2.2.2.25.Improve the production and distribution
capacities through the expansion and maintenance of the transport fleet to
cover 40 per cent of the daily distribution of the Mercal network.

2.2.2.26.Expand the centers for the distribution
and sale of products, in addition to a 50 per cent increase in the number of arepa stores, bakeries and butcher’s
shops in Venezuela.

2.2.2.27.Consolidate the nutrition houses as
centers for nutrition training and assistance through the adaptation and
transformation of 4 500 nutrition houses into centers for nutrition training
and assistance.

2.2.2.28.Consolidate and expand the People’s
Pharmacies Network in the entire country.

2.2.2.29.Build infrastructural works oriented to
the construction, improvement and adaptation of industrial facilities to
increase the productive capacity of processing plants, packaging plants
(operational capacity and processing); storage facilities (dry and cold
capacities) and production lines, among others.

2.2.2.30.Educate and train the population so
that they are able to adjust their nutritional habits and consumption
patterns.It is expected that the
dining halls of the National Nutrition Institute and the Strategic Foods
Program Foundation (FUNDAPROAL) could serve as training camps for the Mission ‘Saber y Trabajo’.

2.2.2.31.Prevent and control macronutrients
deficiencies and promote food security in every household.

2.2.2.32.Increase the actions aimed at the
socio-productive activation and participation of families, based on social
ownership as well as the creation of community social and productive networks,
family units, solidarity exchange groups and all other relevant organizational
forms for work and training.

2.2.2.33.Develop the Community Economic System
with the different forms of social and productive organization: collectively
owned enterprises, family units, solidarity exchange groups and all other
working organizational forms.

2.2.2.34.Strengthen the social basis for the
community economy system.Indirect
social ownership enterprises shall be governed by the People’s Power
organs.Self-sustainable financing shall
be likewise promoted.

2.2.2.35.Create the People’s Power organs and
the Workers’ Councils in indirect social ownership enterprises.

2.2.2.36.Develop coordination among the
Community Councils and Workers’ Councils of indirect social ownership
enterprises.

2.2.3Consolidate the Grand Socialist
Missions as a superior revolutionary instrument that would allow us to further
strengthen the process of construction of social justice, just as we did with
the Grand Mission ‘Hijos de Venezuela’
and the Grand Mission ‘En Amor Mayor’.

2.2.3.1.Complete the process of downsizing of
the Missions according to the objectives for which they were created, in order
to face new challenges.

2.2.3.2.Create new grand missions in areas,
themes or problems considered as a priority according to the strategic
objectives.

2.2.3.3.Develop, from the grand missions, the
territorial follow-up systems to transform the lives of families and
communities that live in poverty.

2.2.3.4.Establish special financing systems to
ensure the sustainability of the socialist Missions and Grand Missions.

NATIONAL
OBJECTIVE:

2.3Consolidate
and expand people’s power and socialist democracy.Achieve full sovereignty as a guarantee of
the irreversibility of the Bolivarian process is the main goal pursued by the
organized and conscious people in power. The creation and development of new
forms of people’s participation is an example of the way in which the
Bolivarian Revolution is moving forward by consolidating the hegemony and
control of the political, social, economic and cultural orientation of the
country. The power that had formerly been kidnapped by the oligarchy is being
put back in the hands of the people that, after so many battles and victories,
are now much better organized.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.3.1Ensure the leading participation of the
organized people in the formation and transformation of the productive economic
model, social prevention and protection, from the new forms of people’s
participation, such as the community councils; the organizations of women,
youth, adolescents, indigenous people, afro-descendants, students, workers, peasants,
motorists, professionals, small and medium producers, business people, people
with different sexual preferences, transporters, artists, ecologists and
citizens’ movements, among many others.

2.3.1.1.Encourage the participation of the
people in the community organizations systems: Community Councils, Social
Battles Rooms, Socialist Communities, Community Cities, Community Federations
and Confederations to strengthen the local capabilities for action over
territorial, political, economic, social, cultural, ecological aspects and the
security and defense of the national sovereignty.

2.3.1.2.Promote, from 2013 until 2016: the
creation of 21 004 Community Councils that will gather 8 821 296 people (full
coverage of the Venezuelan people). From 2017 to 2019: 2 699 Community Councils
will be created every year (taking into account the population’s annual growth
rate of 1.7 per cent.That is to say, by
the year 2019 the total population will amount to 30 550 479 inhabitants).

2.3.1.3.Promote the creation of 250 Social
Battle Rooms every year, taking as a reference the average number of rooms
created during the 4 years of implementation of this policy.In this regard, we will follow the principle
of promoting these as a complementary political entity to gather Community
Councils and design comprehensive community management plans aiming at the
transformation of material and spiritual conditions.

2.3.1.4.The consolidation of and support by the
People’s Power organs during the period 2013-2019 shall contribute to the
creation of 3000 Socialist Communities, considering an approximate increase of
450 communities every year, according to the demographic characteristics of
territorial development hubs.These
communities shall gather 39 000 Community Councils for a total of 4 680 000
families -21 060 000 citizens.That is
to say, by the year 2019, around 68 per cent of Venezuelans -30 550 479
citizens- shall live under community aggregation subsystems.

2.3.2Guarantee the transfer of competences
in public management and administration from institutional, regional and local
entities to organized communities, grassroots organizations and other people’s
power organs.That shall be the strategy
to be followed to completely return power to the sovereign people.

2.3.2.1.Consolidate a coordination system among
the different people’s power institutions with the aim of moving from local to
regional and national action in the construction of a subsystem of communities,
development-driving districts and territorial development hubs, based on the
territorial potentialities and the cultural patrimony of the inhabitants of
every area and in accordance with the National Strategic Development Plans.

2.3.2.2.Establish the notion of
co-responsibility in the regional, territorial and community planning process
to promote the co-responsible participation of people’s organizations in the
analysis and implementation of the guidelines and strategic actions aimed at
the development of plans, works and services in all communities and regions.

2.3.2.3.Consolidate the work of the 24
Community Comprehensive Technical Support Units (one for each state) through
multidisciplinary teams that could ensure an efficient and effective community
management with the aim of improving the provision of comprehensive technical
support to People’s Power organs in community management.

2.3.2.4.Create an inspectorate made up by 4 500
professionals and technicians according to a permanent socio-political,
technical and productive program developed by the School for the Strengthening
of People’s Power.

2.3.2.5.Promote the organization an ensure the
appropriate work of the Social Comptrollership Units of the 29 101 Community
Councils that shall be created during the period 2012-2019 to promote
comptrollership and social control in all spheres of community work as a
guarantee to meet the strategic goals and satisfy the needs of the organized
community citizens.

2.3.3Strengthen territorial integration and
national sovereignty through a well-balanced development of regions by
promoting attractive economic activities as an incentive in support of human
settlements in a community subsystem, looking for a population distribution in
accordance with the use of the productive capabilities of the territory.

2.3.4Guarantee full social inclusion:
People’s Power shall be the guarantor of the recognition of the dignity of
human beings as subjects in the full exercise of their rights, whereby the
family is considered a key protective factor and the fundamental basis of the
new social structure, the premises of which are to be harmony, solidarity,
complementarity and co-responsibility as a way to living well.

2.3.4.1.Promote People’s Power
co-responsibility in the struggle for the eradication of all forms of poverty.

2.3.4.2.Create 43 029 Social Protection and
Prevention Committees in Community Councils –approximately 6 174 committees
every year, in a sustained way.These
committees shall participate in the implementation of plans and public policies
in order to support and follow up on the process of inclusion of vulnerable
populations in their respective communities and territories.

2.3.4.3.Consolidate special policies, from the
community, to assist the highly vulnerable population: Boys and girls; elderly
persons; disabled persons; homeless persons; persons with some kind of
addition; persons with different sexual preferences, among others.

2.3.4.4.Guarantee the organization of families
that have been benefited by the Grand Missions ‘Hijos de Venezuela’ and ‘En Amor
Mayor Venezuela’ through entities such as the Committees for the Elderly,
the ‘Patria Preñada’ Committees and
the ‘Patria Niña’ Committees.

2.3.4.5.Promote, from the communities, a system
of activities aimed at generating new recreational schemes, opposed to the
culture of excesses, destruction and disrespect that characterize the human
relations generated by capitalism.

2.3.4.6.Creation of 55 000 Sports and
Recreation Committees through a sustained increase of approximately 6 500
committees every year, which will be co-responsible for the planning and
implementation of the Prevention and Recreation Plan in their respective
communities.

2.3.4.7.Consolidate a system of activities
aimed at social prevention through the National Recreation Plan designed for
the purpose of living well which includes, among other processes, the
incorporation of the community in sports practicing on a permanent basis by means
of the community sports subsystem, thus ensuring the participation of 10
million persons and the recovery of public spaces in the communities for the
development of cultural, recreational and social prevention activities.

2.3.4.8.Develop the Community Vacation Plan
every year based on the co-responsibility between the people’s power organs and
the revolutionary institutions. A total of 500 000 boys and girls facing a
situation of vulnerability shall be progressively incorporated.

2.3.4.9.Implement educational programs for a
permanent debate on social prevention, to be attended by 420 000 people’s power
spokespersons –around 60 000 participants every year.

2.3.5Consolidate the different processes of
socialization of knowledge oriented towards the people’s promotion of appropriate
capabilities, skills and instruments to exercise public powers and foment the
social and cultural development of communities by expanding the figure of 25
000 Community Councils that have participated, since 2008, in the different
training programs developed by the School for the Strengthening of People’s
Power.

2.3.5.1.Provide training, during the next 7
years, to a total of 47 000 Community Councils about the different processes of
socialization of knowledge.

2.3.5.2.Incorporation of 10 000 facilitators
from different People’s Power organizations as the key actors of the training
processes.

2.3.5.3.Establishment of Training Groups
located at and managed by the communities as a space for learning and
socializing knowledge in the 3 000 communities and 1000 Social Battles Rooms to
be built during this period.

2.3.5.4.Consolidate people’s education as a
driving force of the conscious mobilization of the people, oriented towards the
ultimate reinstatement of people’s power.

2.3.5.5.Develop and improve training programs
to enhance People’s Power management in the competences that are transferred to
it in the political, economic and social areas as well as in those areas that
are considered to be strategic for national development.

2.3.5.6.Incorporate 5 000 facilitators to the
technical and productive training actions of the different productive
organizations through the vocational guidance of the spokespersons of the
People’s Power organizations.

2.3.5.7.Incorporate the 500 000 members of the
Productive Army involved in the Grand Missions to the socio-political,
technical and productive training.

2.3.6Build a new productive structure in the
country with new production social relations, thus ensuring the transformation
of the locally produced primary inputs.The intention is, therefore, to encourage and consolidate a productive,
redistributive, post-rentier-like, post capitalist economy, based on the broad
support given by the public, social and collective ownership over the means of
production. This makes it possible to engage in social planning in perfect harmony
with centralized planning and the development of different socio-productive
organizational forms, based on the different forms of ownership by free
associated producers, namely, social ownership –indirect-, family ownership and
solidarity exchange groups.

2.3.6.1.Generate a productive and diversified
productive structure to guarantee the development of communities and the entire
nation by means of the recovery, reinforcement, activation and creation of
socially owned enterprises.

2.3.6.2.Promote, during the period 2013-2019,
the creation of 30 000 direct social ownership enterprises to process raw
materials and add value to locally produced inputs at the industrial and
semi-industrial scales to satisfy our people’s needs.

2.3.6.3.Create 1 000 new community production
chaining areas where it is possible to develop the different phases of the
productive cycle during the period 2013-2019.

2.3.6.4.Develop a new financial architecture
based on a financing budgetary system together with the creation of a network
of economic and financial organization that manage, administer, transfer,
finance, facilitate, capture and control the financial and non-financial,
returnable and non-returnable resources administered by the communities and
different People’s Power grassroots organizations.

2.3.6.5.Creation of 3 000 Community Banks that
will consolidate the new People’s Power financial architecture.

2.3.6.6.Promote the creation of 3 000 Community
Economic Councils and 43 000 Community Economic Committees during the period
2013-2019.

2.3.6.7.Synchronize, through centralized
planning, the activation and development of different forms of socio-productive
organizations, thus promoting different forms of direct and indirect social
ownership, family ownership, solidarity exchange groups as well as the free
association of producers.

2.3.6.8.Register and constitute all Community
Direct Social Ownership Enterprises, Community Indirect Social Ownership
Enterprises, Family Production Units and Solidarity Exchange Groups in the
country.

2.3.6.9.Encourage a policy of social
re-investment with the resources generated by organized communities with the
aim of generalizing co-responsible contributions to meet their needs and
aspirations.

2.3.6.10.Guarantee the socio-productive
inclusion, emancipating work, the transformation of the capitalism reserve army
into a creative social force through the organization of productive forces,
thus generating a new work culture.

2.3.6.11.Incorporate 500.000 Brigade members to
the Productive Army involved in the Grand Missions.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

2.4Promote
a new ethical, moral and spiritual social orientation based on the liberating
values of socialism.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.4.1Preserve the moral heritage of the
Venezuelan people and reinforce it through the implementation of strategies
aimed at the creation of values.

2.4.1.1.Preserve the traditional values of the
Venezuelan people, such as honesty, responsibility, vocation to work, love for
our neighbors, solidarity, willingness to upgrade our knowledge and struggle
for emancipation by means of their permanent promotion through every available
means, as a way of defense against the anti-values of the capitalist model
which promotes exploitation, consumerism, individualism and corruption and are
the source of the criminal violence that weighs down on the Venezuelan society.

2.4.1.2.Reinforce the moral heritage of the
Venezuelan people through the promotion of socialist values, socialist ethics
and morale, socialist education and self-education, conscious discipline based
on criticism and self-criticism, the practice of solidarity and love, social
duty awareness and the struggle against corruption and bureaucracy.

2.4.1.3.Adapt the curricula at every
educational level to include the strategies aimed at the creation of values in
accordance with the new society that we are building.

2.4.2Strengthen social comptrollership.

2.4.2.1.Continue to promote social
comptrollership as a strategy for the exercise of people’s will and ability to
supervise the management of public funds by public service entities and their
effectiveness in the achievement of public management goals, which will be the
necessary tools that could further improve their performance.

2.4.3Strengthen the system to administer
justice, combat impunity, restructure the penitentiary system and promote the
justice of the peace at the community level.

2.4.3.1.Strengthen the system to administer
justice through the provision of the means required for an optimal performance,
including the appropriate level of criminal investigation hat will make it
possible to combat impunity.

2.4.3.2.To carry out an overall reform of the
penitentiary system, aiming at the comprehensive rehabilitation of inmates in
order to favor their incorporation to the productive system of the new society.

2.4.3.3.Promote the justice of the peace at the
community level as an efficient instrument to support peaceful coexistence and
favor the practice of solidarity and love among Venezuelans.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

2.5Achieve
the ultimate establishment of the new Social and Democratic State and the Rule
of Law and Justice.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

2.5.1Display the power contained in the
Bolivarian Constitution for the exercise of pre-eminent and participatory
democracy.

2.5.1.1.Design, together with the People’s
Power grassroots organizations, a specific plan for the legal and practical
development of all constitutional articles that recognize people’s right to
exercise direct democracy.

2.5.2Establish a permanent communication
system to listen to the opinions of the organized people and the depoliticized
people as part of the efforts towards the collective construction of the Socialist
State, based on the principle of “commanding by obeying”.

2.5.2.1.Review, strengthen and expand the
system of Missions and Grand Missions as a form of participation by the people
in the new democratic institutions.

2.5.2.2.Establish, as a general rule, the celebration
of sessions and procedures of people’s questioning about the public servants
performance.

2.5.3Develop the Federal Government System
based on the principles of territorial, economic and political integrity of the
Venezuelan State, through the leading participation of workers, peasants,
citizens, indigenous people, afro-descendants, women and youths in community
government work and the administration of the means used in the production of
collectively owned goods and services.

2.5.3.1.Plan and carry out the transfer of
competences to the communities, community councils, service technical boards,
citizens’ movements, indigenous people, workers’ councils, motorists and
students in relation to housing, sports, culture, social programs, the
environment, maintenance of industrial areas, maintenance and preservation of
urban areas, community protection and social prevention,construction,and provision of public services, among others.

2.5.3.2.Plan and materialize social
participation in economic processes by encouraging different economic
manifestations and forms of endogenous development through cooperatives,
savings banks, social ownership enterprises –collective and mixed ownership-,
and mutual funds, among others.

2.5.3.3.Implement, through the Federal
Government Council and with the participation of States and Municipalities, a
planning system for the productive territorial development of the Nation by
developing the Development-Driving Districts; and design shared-management
systems in the interest of ensuring the maintenance of highways, the
environmental health and the social infrastructure required in the entire
country.

2.5.4Continue to carry out a comprehensive
transformation and reorganization of Public Administration in order to make it
all the more useful for the people and dignify public servants.

2.5.4.1.Implement policies to provide public
servants and popular and social leaders who accomplish their duties in the
context of socialist ethical values with incentives and recognition.

2.5.4.2.Forge a revolutionary culture to the
service of the public in all spheres, thus strengthening the principle that
Public Administration officials are, above all, public servants who are there
to serve the people in an expeditious and honest way.

2.5.4.3.Design and implement a policy destined
to promote and revalue the culture of socialist knowledge and work as
indispensable mechanisms for the transformation of the State through the
creation of Administrative and Political Cadres Training Schools at the State
institutions, the social ownership enterprises and the People’s Power organs.

2.5.4.4.Implement a process for the gradual
reorganization of the State administration by recognizing and dignifying the
conditions of public servants, according to their roles and competences,
oriented towards the use of the professional and working capabilities and the
strengthening of the productive and economic model.

2.5.4.5.Improve and consolidate the mechanisms
to impose political, administrative and criminal sanctions, as appropriate, on
public servants who happen to be politically and administrative inefficient or
commit the crime of corruption.

2.5.4.6.Eradicate, once and for all, the
traditional ‘agents’, so that all arrangements required for obtaining
documents, making legalizations, payments, getting a scholarship, pensions or
carrying out any type of legal arrangement within Public Administration can
flow as expeditiously and meticulously as possible through the mass expansion
of cutting-edge technologies and the unification of criteria.

2.5.4.7.Eliminate all unnecessary proceedings
that citizens are required to complete in order to make any legal arrangement
with the State or obtain licenses, registers, diplomas, certificates, among
others.

2.5.5Direct, from the State’s top
leadership, a profound and definite revolution in the justice administration system
to put an end to impunity, achieve equal access and eradicate the classist and
racist character in its implementation.

2.5.5.1.Support the establishment of Municipal
Public Prosecutor’s Offices and Courts in the whole country.

2.5.5.2.Support a significant increase in the
number of courts in the country, particularly criminal courts.

2.5.5.3.Support a significant increase in the
number of attorney’s offices at the national level.

2.5.5.4.Support the creation of new physical
spaces to accommodate the new courts and improve the existing infrastructure.

2.5.5.5.Promote the cohesion and organization
of all the existing juridical instruments of the Justice System which generate
incoherence in certain definitions as well as administrative disorder in many
of its entities, such as the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedural Code, and
the Civil Code, among others.

2.5.5.6.Support the policies to educate and
train judges and public prosecutors aimed at developing a culture of
responsibility in the administration of justice based on the right of the human
beings that make up the Venezuelan society to live well.

2.5.6Implement in overdrive the Grand
Mission “A toda vida, Venezuela!”,
conceived as a comprehensive public security policy, with particular emphasis
on the 79 municipalities showing the highest crime rates, aiming at
transforming the structural, situational and institutional aspects that
generate violence and crime in order to reduce them by enhancing coexistence in
solidarity and people’s enjoyment of the right to free and safe exercise oftheir family, community, social, educational,
working, trade union, economic, cultural and recreational activities.

2.5.6.1.Expand and consolidate a comprehensive
prevention and community coexistence through the design, implementation and
supervision of the comprehensive prevention plan specially targeting unemployed
youths; implement a special vigilance and patrolling program in selected
municipalities; activate the Community Police Service in the entire nation;
implement a working plan to impose arms and ammunitions control and promote
disarmament; and expand the program to improve the investigation, apprehension
and prosecution of persons charged with homicide, kidnapping, robbery andtheft of vehicles.

2.5.6.2.Continue to strengthen the public and
citizens security organs through the provision of individual and institutional
equipment to police corps and the modernization of communication equipment to
be able to give a quick and efficient response.

2.5.6.3.Increase the presence of the National
Bolivarian Police throughout the entire country and conclude the process to
relaunch the Scientific, Criminal and Forensic Investigation Corps (CICPC).

2.5.6.4.Promote the transformation of the
Criminal Justice System and support the creation of alternative conflict
settlement mechanisms through the creation of the Criminal Justice Houses in
every one of the selected municipalities.

2.5.6.5.Continue to transform the Penitentiary
System.

2.5.6.6.Activate the National System of
Assistance to Victims.

2.5.6.7.Create and socialize knowledge in favor
of citizens’ coexistence and security and establish the Comprehensive Community
Centers for Conflicts Settlement.

2.5.6.8.Create a strategic area or field of
knowledge on public and citizen security as part of the National Fund for
Science, Technology and Innovation and complete the expansion of UNES in seven
states of the country:Portuguesa,
Bolívar, Falcón, Barinas, Nueva Esparta and Apure with the aim of increasing
the training capacity of the new public and citizen security model and the
production of knowledge in the field of security.

2.5.7Guarantee the right to the free access
and use of truthful information and communication.

2.5.7.1.Strengthen the communication
sovereignty by disseminating information about our cultural, geographical,
tourist and environmental patrimony as well as our political and productive
development with the aim of consolidating the Latin American and Caribbean
integration and unity.Thus, we intend
to continue developing communication networks and the means to express the
words, images and voices of our peoples.

2.5.7.2.Strengthen the use of the media as an
instrument of education for the transition towards socialism by enhancing
citizens’ values and the responsible and critical use of the media.In this endeavor it is indispensable to promote
communication research as a human process and as an instrument of social
transformation and construction.

2.5.7.3.Consolidate the social regulation of
the media as an instrument to strengthen people’s power, thus promoting and
encouraging the National System of People’s Communication (community radio and
television stations; community, environmentalists, workers, youths, party,
trade union, peasants newspapers, among others) as a space for the articulation
of meanings and relationships generated from the practice of social and human
communication, with the aim of transforming reality from the organized people’s
power.

2.5.7.4.Update and develop the media
technological platforms, taking advantage of the activation of the Open Digital
Television which will enhance the quality of broadcasts and offer a broader
spectrum of differential signals.

III.Turn Venezuela into a social, economic and political power
as part of the Great Emerging Power of Latin America and the Caribbean to
ensure the creation of a peace zone in Our America.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

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3.1Consolidate
Venezuela’s role as a World Energy Power.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

3.1.1Develop the country’s production
capacity in accordance with the huge hydrocarbons reserves following the
principle of rational exploitation and the policy of preservation of a natural,
depletable and non-renewable resource.

3.1.1.1.Achieve a crude oil production of up to
4 million barrels a day by the year 2014 and 6 million barrels a day by the
year 2019.

3.1.1.2.Achieve a natural gas production of up
to 9.247 million cubic feet a day by the year 2014, and 11.947 million cubic
feet a day by the year 2019.

3.1.2Develop the Orinoco Oil Belt.

3.1.2.1.Develop the proven reserves of the
Orinoco Oil Belt to achieve a total production of 4 million barrels a day by
the year 2019.

3.1.2.2.Develop the production of the six new
joint ventures for the production and processing of crude from the Orinoco Oil
Belt to achieve a production of 2.090.000 barrels a day by the year 2019.

3.1.2.3.Build new improvers to transform the
extra-heavy oil of the Orinoco Oil Belt from 8º API to 32º-42º API, based on a
total processing capacity of 1 million barrels a day.

3.1.2.4.Build two new refineries, one in Cabruta and the other one in the
Industrial Complex ‘José Antonio
Anzoátegui’ with a total processing capacity of 720.000 barrels a day.

3.1.2.6.Build a storage capacity of 20 million
barrels and 2000 kilometers of pipelines –including oil and diluents pipeline
systems.

3.1.2.7.Build a deep water terminal in the
state of Sucre for the reception and dispatch of crude and oil products with an
export capacity of 2 million barrels a day, as well as three river terminals
for solids and fluids at the Orinoco River.

3.1.2.8.Build five thermo power stations with a
total generation capacity of 2 620 mega watts, which shall be operated with the
petroleum coke resulting from the process of improvement of the crude from the
Orinoco Oil Belt.

3.1.2.9.Build two industrial condominiums in
the areas of Carabobo and Junín to supply services to the improvers.

3.1.2.10.Create six Socialist Petro-industrial
Bases at the Orinoco Oil Belt, in the areas of Palital, Chaguaramas and San
Diego de Cabrutica to develop metal and mechanical activities, provide
services to oil wells and vessels, manufacture oil drills, drill bits, valves,
pipes and other goods and services.

3.1.3.2.Continue incorporating new secondary
recovery projects and maintain and improve the existing ones.

3.1.3.3.Maintain and improve the reliability
and maintainability of the existing infrastructure.

3.1.4Develop the reserves of the Gas Belt
located in our territorial sea.

3.1.4.1.Develop the existing potentialities of
the Venezuelan Gas Belt through the projects Rafael Urdaneta, Mariscal Sucre and Plataforma Deltana, to achieve a gas production of 720 million
cubic feet by the year 2014 and 2.030 billion cubic feet by the year 2019.

3.1.4.2.Speed up the exploration efforts in the
Venezuelan Gas Belt in the areas of Blanquilla,
the Venezuelan Gulf, Ensenada de
Barcelona, the northern region of Mariscal
Sucre and Fachada Atlántica, in
order to search for new reserves of non-associated gas with the aim of
incorporating new reserves which, according to the perspectives based on the exploratory
works, could produce 135 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

3.1.5Adapt and expand the national refining
circuit.

3.1.5.1.Adjust and expand the national refining
system from 1.3 million barrels a day by the year 2013 to 1.8 million barrels a
day by the year 2019, thus moving towards the biggest processing output of
heavy and extra heavy crude from the Orinoco Oil Belt, and adapt it to the
quality demands of the national and international markets.This includes the projects of expansion and
profound transformation of the refineries El
Palito, Puerto La Cruz and Complejo
Refinador Paraguaná as well as the construction of 3 new refineries: Batalla de Santa Inés (100 million
barrels a day); Petrobicentenario
(350 million barrels a day), and Cabruta
(220 million barrels a day).

3.1.6Expand the infrastructure for the
transportation, storage and dispatch of oil and gas.

3.1.6.2.Adapt and expand the network of fuel
distribution plants, such as El Guamache
and Puerto Pesquero Güiria, and the
construction of new plants, such as Planta
del Oeste de Caracas; Catia La Mar; Batalla de Santa Inés; Cabruta and Jose.

3.1.6.3.Expand the gas transportation network
in order to achieve the figure of 1 965 kilometers of pipelines, including the
old and the new, such as the gas pipelines José
Francisco Bermúdez (SINORGAS);Norte Llanero andEje
Orinco – Apure.

3.1.6.4.Increase the production and extraction
of natural gas liquids by 120 million barrels a day, through the gas processing
projects Soto I and Soto II; Pirital I and San Joaquín IV.

3.1.6.5.Strengthen and expand the coverage of
the methane distribution network with the construction of 11 760 kilometers of
pipelines with the aim of replacing the consumption of LPG and offer the
population a better life quality.

3.1.7Strengthen and expand the national
petrochemical industry.

3.1.7.1.Develop petrochemical projects for the
processing of natural gas and naphtha and apply refining currents to transform
them into higher added value products.

3.1.7.3.Increase by 43 per cent the production
of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers to meet the national demand; this will
turn Venezuela into an exporter of fertilizers for the entire region.

3.1.7.4.Increase by 300 per cent the production
capacity for olefins and traditional plastic resins and develop other plastic
resins chains necessary for the country, which are currently imported.

3.1.7.5.Expand by 87 per cent the installed
capacity of the chemicals producing sector, making emphasis on the production
of aromatics and the development of the methanol and urea downstream chains.

3.1.7.6.Continue, in the context of the Grand
Mission Vivienda Venezuela, to
develop the modular factories of houses and accessories (Petrohouses) by
installing 10 new plants in different areas of the country in order to achieve
a production of 50 000 housing units per year; 800 000 windows per year and 800
000 doors per year.It is important to
emphasize that these houses and accessories will be available as from the
second quarter of the year 2013.

3.1.8Develop the industrial complex
associated with the oil, gas and petrochemical industries in order to
strengthen our economic sovereignty.

3.1.8.1.Increase the national capacity for the
assembly and manufacturing of drills and oil wells service equipment with the
establishment of the China-Venezuela Drill Manufacturing Industry and others to
be established in order to achieve an annual production of 15 drills.

3.1.8.2.Strengthen the construction of drilling
platforms for the exploitation of off-shore reserves in Venezuela, such as the
one built for the Corocoro reserve of
Petrosucre, with the aim of
guaranteeing the timely availability of the equipment required for the
development of Mariscal Sucre, Cardón IV and Plataforma Deltana, with the highest
possible amount of national components in these projects.

3.1.8.3.Encourage the activities of State
Maintenance Enterprises to minimize the time and cost and improve services
during the plant shutdown in the national refining and improvement system.

3.1.8.4.Create State Enterprises and Joint
Ventures as well as Industrial Conglomerates for the establishment of Plants
for the Calcination of Coke, Recovery of Flexicoke Metals and Green Coke,a Ferrovanadium Plant,an Oil Tar Plant and an Orimatita Plant,
based on the integration ofthe Oil,
Basic Industries and Mining Chain of the Iron-Steel and Bauxite-Aluminum
sectors.

3.1.9Strengthen and consolidate
technological sovereignty.

3.1.9.1.Promote the national development of
technologies for the improvement of heavy and extra heavy oils through in situ improvements processes, deep
conversion processes, advanced hydrogenated processes and catalytic
viscosity-breaking and aqua-conversion processes.

3.1.9.2.Apply secondary and tertiary
exploitation technologies to heavy and extra heavy crude oils in order to
achieve a 20 per cent recovery. These technologies are, among others, the
continued steam injection, the in situ
combustion and the surfactants injection.

3.1.9.3.Create the Socialist Oil Production Technical
School for the training of the medium level technicians required in more than
180 trades, through the incorporation of the Technical Ribas Mission, which can
enrol 5 000 persons every year.

3.1.9.4.Establish the different chapters of the
Hydrocarbons University in the entire country and select the teaching staff and
authorities who will be in charge of the technical and ideological training of
the new generation of cadres who will be assigned to the development areas of
the Orinoco Oil Belt and Offshore.

3.1.9.5.Create the Institute for the Research
of the Coke and Minerals resulting from the processing of the Orinoco Oil Belt
crude oil looking at their ultimate industrial use.

3.1.10Consolidate the diversification of our
markets.

3.1.10.1.Consolidate the strategies for the diversification
of markets for crude oil and oil products in order to meat, by the year 2019,
the export goal of 2.200 billion barrels a day to Asian countries; 1.250
billion barrels a day to Latin America and the Caribbean; 550 million barrels a
day to Europe and 1.150 billion barrels a day to North America.

3.1.10.2.Consolidate the strategies aimed at the
integration and positioning of Venezuela in Latin America and the Caribbean
through projects such as the one for the construction of a refining capacity of
1.100 billion barrels a day between Ecuador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba; as
well as the establishment of a 2 300 kilometers-long crude oil transportation
route to carry up to 500 million barrels a day to Colombia’s Pacific region. In
Asia, the refining capacity will increase to 1.200 billion barrels a day after
the construction of three refineries in China, one in Vietnam and another one
in Syria.

3.1.11Strengthen and consolidate the
operational capabilities of our national enterprise Petróleos de Venezuela.

3.1.11.1.Increase the actions necessary to
guarantee the availability of human, logistic and financial resources required
to implement the different plans and programs.

3.1.11.2.Enhance the reliability and
availability of the infrastructure for the collection, treatment, storage, shipment,
measurement and refining of hydrocarbons.

3.1.11.3.Guarantee the skills required in human
talent to efficiently carry out the activities of the hydrocarbons value chain.

3.1.12Guarantee the country’ energy security.

3.1.12.1.Synchronize production with the demand
and the coverage period of different hydrocarbon fuels within the national
territory.

3.1.12.2.Diversify the primary energy matrix and
adapt energy consumption to the best efficiency standards with the
incorporation of coke, coal and other alternative energies.

3.1.12.3.Reinforce the contingency plans in
order to cope with force majeure events in a timely manner.

3.1.13Strengthen the State’s management and
control of the national power system.

3.1.13.1.Strengthen and expand the national
power system.

3.1.13.2.Diversify the matrix of inputs for power
generation, thus favouring the use of natural gas, coke and other energy
sources.

3.1.13.3.Complete the country’s hydro-power
development through the conclusion of the Hydro-power Complexes of: Tocoma; Uribante Caparo –its second
development- and the development of El
Chorrín.

3.1.13.5.Expand and improve the use of the power
transmission and distribution network through the implementation of:

A Robust Plan that would allow for the expansion of
the transmission capacity at the following substations: San Carlos II Substation, 400/115 kV; Chivacoa II, 400/115 kV;,
Portuguesa, 400/115 kV; Carabobo II, 400/230 kV, and its associated
transmisión system; SVC at the
substation Horqueta, 230 kV; Línea N° 2
Uribante – El Vigía II and El Vigia
II – Buena Vista-isolated- 400 kV; System
at 400 kV in the western part of the
country (El Venado – Buena Vista).

With regard to sub-transmission: Expansion of the
Transmission-Distribution Liaison System at 115/13.8-34.5 kV to take care of
the end-users loads.

As to distribution: compensate circuits in order to
improve the load power factors and build new feeders to ensure supply to
end-users with appropriate quality.

Expand and adapt the power system in the western
region which extends through the states of Barinas, Mérida, Táchira, Alto
Apure, Trujillo and Zulia and build the following works: 45 substations, 4 044
kilometers of transmission lines, 7 096 kilometers of distribution lines, 1 305
mega volts in distribution and 8 654 mega watts in generation plants.

Expand and adapt the Power System in the Central
Region which extends through the states of Apure, Aragua, Carabobo, Cojedes,
Capital, Falcón, Guárico, Lara, Miranda, Portuguesa, Vargas and Yaracuy, which
add to the construction of the following works: 67 Substations; 4 075 km of
transmission lines; 3 179 km of distribution lines; 8 488 mega volts in
distribution; 5 542 mega watts at the generation plants.

Expand and adapt the Eastern Power System which
extends through the states of Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Monagas,
Nueva Esparta and Sucre, which adds to the construction of thefollowing works:48 Substations; 4 110 km of transmission
lines; 4 743 km of distribution lines; 1 083 mega volts in distribution and 6
780 mega watts in generation plants.

Continue to improve the efficiency and quality of the
power service through the development of a power infrastructure based on
efficiency, quality, continuity, reliability and environmental criteria.

3.1.13.6.Continue to improve the power service
efficiency and quality.

3.1.13.7.Encourage an efficient use of power,
using alternative sources of energy and implementing the use of wind energy.

3.1.13.8.Ensure the provision of power for the
new housing development projects that are part of the Vivienda Venezuela Grand Mission as well as for the new oil, gas,
mining and petrochemical development projects.

3.1.14Strengthen and consolidate
international energy cooperation.

3.1.14.1.Consolidate previous and future
strategic alliances among the countries signatories of the PETROCARIBE
agreements, the Energy Cooperation Agreements and the Cooperation Comprehensive
Agreement, with the aim of ensuring compliance with the agreement and
contributing 470 million barrels of Venezuelan hydrocarbons a day to provide
direct benefits to the peoples of these countries.

3.1.14.2.Consolidate the political and economic
alliances with those countries that have a favorable geo-strategic position,
whose interests may coincide with those of our nation, thus favouring the
construction of a multipolar world.

3.1.14.3.Consolidate cooperation relations with
the countries of the region based on the principles of complementarity and
solidarity with the aim of providing them with access to energy.

3.1.15Develop the economic power with the use
of mineral resources.

3.1.15.1.Increase the national mineral reserves.

3.1.15.2.Locate the new mineral reserves at the
Guiana Shield, the Caribbean Mountainous System, the Andes Mountain Range and Sierra de Perijá, through geological
prospection and the use of new technologies with a low environmental impact.

3.1.15.3.Duplicate the reserves of bauxite,
iron, coltan (niobium and tantalite), nickel, phosphate rock, feldspar and coal
with the certification of the reserves located in the Guiana Shield, the
Caribbean Mountainous System, the Andes Mountain Range and Sierra de Perijá.

3.1.15.4.Duplicate the reserves of gold and
diamond with the certification of the reserves located in the Guiana Shield.
During the process of construction of socialism these shall be used as tradable
goods for the strengthening of international reserves.

3.1.15.5.Develop the national mining potential
to diversify the sources of jobs, revenues and forms of social ownership.

3.1.15.6.Use the endogenous industrial demand as
a driving force for the development of mining, by achieving a balance between
the domestic demand and the international demand.

3.1.15.7.Strengthen the National Mining
Enterprise –an indirect social ownership- to integrate all mining activities,
exploit mineral reserves in a rational way, develop scientific and technological
knowledge, increase productivity and improve production efficiency in that
sector.

3.1.15.8.Increase the production of gold and
diamonds through a technological updating of the existing State-owned gold
enterprises and the creation of joint ventures in which the Bolivarian Republic
of Venezuela will keep control over its decisions and owns more than 55 per
cent of the shares and also by organizing the small mining business into
production units.

3.1.15.9.Create joint ventures for the
exploitation and processing of bauxite, iron, coltan (niobium and tantalite)
nickel, phosphate rock, feldspar and coal, in which the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela will have full control over its decision and hold more than 55 per
cent of shares.

3.1.15.10.Create direct social ownership enterprises
taking into account people’s knowledge in artisanal mining of non-metallic
minerals which are crucial for the construction of civil works such as soft
clay, sand, gravel, screenings, granite, granodiorite, shale, marble, gneiss,
lime, gypsum and salt.

3.1.15.11.Develop environmentally-friendly mining
technologies, the volumes of waste material and the superficial processing of
the useful material, taking advantage of the potential that exists in all
universities and institutes of the country and the technology transfer
agreements signed with allied countries.

3.1.15.12.Organize small mining -focused on the
exploitation of gold and diamonds- into production units, for which the State
shall offer technological and financial support to protect the workers’ health,
the natural resources and the environment.

3.1.15.13.Create the Mining Social Development
Fund with the financial contributions resulting from the mining industry to
guarantee social security for the workers and their dependents.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

3.2Develop the nation’s economic power based on
the optimal use of the potential that exist in our natural resources in order
to provide maximum happiness to our people and create the necessary material
basis for the construction of our Bolivarian socialism.

STRATEGIC AND
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

3.2.1Advance towards production sovereignty and
independence during the process of construction of strategic networks both for
the production of essential goods and the generation of value, based on our
comparative advantages.

3.2.1.1.Expand
and strengthen the capacities for extraction and primary processing, such as
the downstream development of the iron, steel and aluminum chains.

3.2.1.2.Develop
primary production and build the strategic hubs around the chemical and
petrochemical industries, as well as the associated chains of by-products as
the basis of industrialization in the production of intermediate and final
consumption goods.

3.2.1.3.Expand
and develop the primary production and exploitation of forestry by increasing
the volume and area of plantations as well as the transformation infrastructure
throughout the entire production chain for the manufacturing of furniture,
houses, paper and inputs for other industrial processes.

3.2.1.4.Industrialize
the construction sector to meet the needs for housing, facilities, urban
equipment and infrastructure.

3.2.1.5.Exercise
the country’s sovereign rights over the extraction and processing of
non-metallic minerals, the technologies to maximize yields and protect the
environment, particularly the chains of cement and construction aggregates and
special productive inputs (feldspar, kaolin) and minerals such as coltan.

3.2.1.6.Build
a broad industrial system associated to the architecture of productive
synergies networks, oriented towards the manufacturing of essential goods for
final consumption and/or generation of value.

3.2.1.7.Expand
the installed capacity and engage in the process of technological modernization
and appropriation in the production of packages and containers both for the
food sovereignty program and for the industry in general.

3.2.2Exploit
the advantages of the geographical position of our country in the continent and
the diversity of national regions in order to promote their productive
specialization associated to the comparative advantages of strategic sectors.

3.2.2.1.Design
a productive space specialization scheme taking into account the geographical
advantages and based on the rational and efficient use of available resources,
following the principle of independence, sovereignty and interregional
balance.Such schemes shall be the
functional soul of the country’s space planning scale and the cities’ system.

3.2.2.2.Generate
a production supporting structure, regional networks and the infrastructure to
support production, logistics and distribution.

3.2.2.3.Build
the pivots for the Bolivarian productive integration of Our America, defining
the links of strategic and common productive chains to meet the social needs of
our people, particularly in the areas ofhealth, food, education, clothing, energy and housing.

3.2.3Adapt
and develop techniques and technologies as a key of the efficiency and
humanization of the productive process by hooking up the different links of the
productive chains and displaying their space potential.

3.2.3.1.Establish
strategic alliances in a multipolar world to ensure technological transfers and
the improvement of productive processes.

3.2.3.2.Encourage
a sovereign technological development based on the needs of our industry in
order to make an efficient use of the appropriate resources and cost
structures.

3.2.3.3.3.2.3.3.
Guarantee the comprehensive and continued training of workers to adopt
techniques and technologies aimed at a more efficient production and a more
humane work.

3.2.4Generate
capital circulation mechanisms that would contribute to a new economic
metabolism for the encouragement, functioning and development of the national
industry both in terms of financing sources and productive dynamics and as a
system of resources flow that could confront the logic of capital.

3.2.4.1.Design
and implement an efficient financial architecture from the sovereignty that has
been achieved, oriented to leverage the national industrialization process in
terms of planning, viability evaluation, implementation and support of the new
productive apparatus.

3.2.4.2.Develop
economies of scale and complementarity within the social productive system with
the aim of building a new economic metabolism contrary to the logic of
capital.Implement a system of
contribution of the surplus production of direct and indirect social ownership
enterprises as part of the planning system.

3.2.4.3.Maintain
and increase the system of public acquisitions –as a capital circular flow-,
conglomerates, small and medium enterprises as community enterprises, as a
driving force to promote the direct allocation of the goods and services
produced outside the logic of capital.

3.2.5Continue
developing and promoting the productive links identified in concrete projects
at different stages –consolidation, construction starting of operations,
conceptualization and design- during the next presidential period- in areas
such as the automobile sector, electrical appliances, construction materials,
transformation of plastics and packages, chemical industry, personal and
household hygiene items, pharmaceutical products, agro-industrial products,
information sciences and electronics, machinery and equipment, forestry, pulp
and paper, support to production, textiles, footwear, iron, steel and aluminum;
and operate a centralized planning mechanism, budgetary systems and efficient
management and productive models in accordance with the transition towards
socialism.

3.2.5.1.Consolidate
–in the area of iron and steel production- the following projects that are
already operational: (a) factory of iron rods and steel coils (SIDOR) in the
state of Bolívar; (b) factory of iron rods (SIDETUR) in the states of Bolivar,
Lara, Carabobo and the capital district; (c) iron ore factory Ferrominera del Orinoco, in the state of
Bolívar; (d) manufacturing and repairing of oil valves Inveval, in the state of Miranda; (e) factory of forgings for the
oil industry and aluminum items Forjas
Santa Clara in the state of Carabobo.

3.2.5.2.Accelerate
–in the area of iron and steel production- the construction of the following
projects: (a) factory of seamless pipes, Matanzas
industrial zone, within the premises of SIDOR, in the state of Bolívar; (b)
National Steel Industry “José Ignácio de
Abreu e Lima”, in the city of Piar, state of Bolívar; (c) Rails and Bars
Mill Project, Chaguaramas, in the state of Guárico; (d) Plants for the
Recycling of Raw Materials (REMAPCA) in Soledad,
the state of Anzoátegui, La Fría (state
of Táchira), Santa Bárbara (state of
Monagas) and Cabimas (state of
Zulia); (e)dredging of the channel of
the Orinoco river, Ferrominera.

3.2.5.3.Develop
–in the area of iron and steel production- the following projects: (a) recovery
of the scouring line in SIDOR, (b) continued pouring machine for round and
square shapes; (c) electric welding mesh line at SIDOR; (d) strategic alliance
for the production of electrodes for carbon steel welding and special alloys;
(e) expansion of the wharf of Palua, Ferrominera; (f) Increase of the railway
transportation capacity, Ferrominera;
(g) Machinery, equipment and spare parts for Ferrominera; (h) new railway circuit at Ferrominera.

3.2.5.4.Consolidate
–in the area of aluminum production- the following projects which are already
in operation: (a) Aluminum Transformer Factory Alven, in the state of Aragua; (b) Aluminum Transformer Factory Albarca, in the state of Lara; (c) Rings
Factory Rialca, in the state of
Carabobo;(d) Factory of foil paper and packages Alucasa, in the state of Carabobo; (e) Factory of foil paper and
foil Alunasa, Costa Rica; (f) Factory
of aluminum piano wires Cabelum, in
the state of Bolivar; (g)Factory of
primary aluminum ALCASA, in the state of Bolívar; (h) Factory of primary
aluminum VENALUM, in the state of
Bolívar; (i) Factory of bauxite Bauxilum,
in the state of Bolívar.

3.2.5.5.Accelerate
–in the area of aluminum production- the construction of the following
projects: (a) Enterprise of Aluminum Lamination Services in Caicara, Orinoco in the municipality General Manuel Cedeño, in the state of
Bolívar.

3.2.5.6.Develop
–in the area of aluminum production- the following projects: (a) increase the
capacity for the production of bare aluminum electrical conductors; (b)
expansion of CVGCabelum for the production of wire bars and electrical conductors;
(c) Technological adaptation of Alcasa for
the increase of the production of primary aluminum; (d) Technological
adaptation of the power system at the cells of Venalum ; (e) Technological adaptation and expansion of Rialca; (f) Factory of copper and
aluminum insulated electrical conductors, Cabelum;
(g) Factory of optical power ground wire electrical conductors, Cabelum; (h) Factory of wooden reels, Cabelum; (i) Adaptation of the plant for
the production of metallurgic alumina and the bauxite mine, Bauxilum; (j)
Acquisition of heavy machinery for the extraction and transportation of bauxite
and other materials.

3.2.5.10.Consolidate
–in the area of technical appliances- the following project which are already
operational: (a) Factory of low and medium power electrical engines Venmotor, in the state of Cojedes.

3.2.5.11.Accelerate
–in the area of technical appliances- the construction of the following
projects: (a) factory of electrical appliances Haier, Yare, in the state of Miranda.

3.2.5.12.Develop
–in the area of technical appliances- the following projects: (a) factory of
kitchen gas ranges, in cooperation with Argentina; (b) Strategic association
with Taurus; (c) Strategic
association with Fadelca; (d)
Strategic association with Motorvenca;
(e) Strategic association with MABE.

3.2.5.13.Consolidate
–in the area of construction materials- the following projects which are
already operational: (a) Water taps factory INAF in the state of Aragua; (b)
Enterprise for the distribution of construction materials Ferresidor; (c) Lime
manufacturing industry Conacal, in the state of Bolivar; (d) Cementos de Venezuela; (e) Industrias Venezolanas del Cemento; (f)
National Cement Factory; (g) Cemento
Andino; (h) Stone processing plant Invepi,
in the state of Falcón; (i) Sanitarios
Maracay.

3.2.5.14.Accelerate
–in the area of technical appliances- the construction of the following
projects: (a) Factory of Light Galvanized Steel Forms (LSF) to be used in
construction; (b) Cabimas (Zulia), Tinaquillo (Cojedes) and Temblador (Monagas); (c) Cement factory “Cerro Azul”, El Pinto, in the state of
Monagas; (d) Enterprise for the basic inputs required by housing construction,
together with several plants for the production of aggregates in the
municipality of Páez, in the state of
Portuguesa, and the municipality of Acevedo,
in the state of Miranda; (e) Factory for the production of sheet glass “Venvidrio Las Llanadas”, Las Llanadas de
Monay, in the state of Trujillo; (f) Ceramics industrial complex Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda (a
strategic association with Russia).

3.2.5.15.Consolidate
–in the area of transformation of plastics and containers- the following
projects which are already in operation: (a) Raffia sacks factory in CIAMCA; (b) Cargo nets factory in CIAMCA; (c) Water tanks factory; (d)
Plastic injection factory Saniplast,
in the state of Zulia; (e) Plastic injection factory Independencia, in the state of Miranda; (f) Plastic injection
factory Batalla de Carabobo, in the
state of Carabobo; (g) Plastic injection factory El Furrial, in the state ofMonagas; (h) Plastic injection factory Lanceros de Guaicaipuro, in the state of Miranda; (i) Factory of
glass containers Venvidrio, in the
state of Carabobo and Trujillo; (j) Factory for the manufacturing of aluminum
containers Alentuy; (k) Factory of
cardboard packages (Cartonajes Granics);
(l) Factory of containers (Envases
Internacional).

3.2.5.16.Accelerate
–in the area of transformation of plastic and containers – the construction of
the following projects: (a) Plastics Industrial Complex, Yare and Ocumare, state
of Miranda; (b) Factory of Syringes (3R); (c) Plant of Plastics in Cacique Tiuna.

3.2.5.17.Develop
–in the area of transformation of plastic and containers – the construction of
the following projects: (a) Expansion of the variety of the products of the
Plastics Industrial Complex, Yare,
state of Miranda; (b) Factory of raffia sacks in Caripe; (c) Expansion of the factory of cargo nets in CIAMCA; (d) Expansion of the factory of
diapers in CIAMCA; (e) Conglomerate
of diapers and sanitary napkins and towelettes; (f) Expansion of international
containers.

3.2.5.18.Consolidate
–at the factories of personal hygiene products – the operation of the following
projects: (a) Factory of diapers in CIAMCA.

3.2.5.19.Accelerate
-at the factories of personal hygiene products – the construction of the
following projects: (a) Factory of Home Hygiene Products, Maracay, state of Aragua.

3.2.5.20.Develop
- at the factories of personal hygiene products – the following projects: (a)
Factory of Personal Hygiene Products.

3.2.5.21.Accelerate
–in the area of pharmaceuticals –the
construction of the following projects:Pharmaceutical Complex, Yare,
state of Miranda.

3.2.5.23.Develop
–in the area of agro-industrial productions – the following projects: (a) Plant
for the processing Aloe (Phase 2: aloinand bitter
aloes for the pharmaceutical, cosmetology and chemical industries), state of
Falcón; (b) Plant for the processing of pork.

3.2.5.24.Develop
–in the area of information sciences and cell phones–the following projects: (a) Plant for the
assembling of cell phones Orinoquia,
in Paraguaná’s Free Zone, state of Falcón; (b) SMT Factory, expansion of Vtelca
factory for exports.

3.2.5.25.Accelerate
–in the area of machinery and equipment –the construction of the following projects: (a) Factory of Heavy
Machinery; (b) Santa Inés Industrial
Complex, state of Barinas; (c) Factories for Food Processing Equipments, in
cooperation with Iran, in Guanare
(Portuguesa), with Brazil in Villa de
Cura (Aragua) and with Argentina in El
Tigrito (Anzoátegui); (d) Factories of Industrial Refrigeration
Equipmentbased on the use of ammonia: Temblador (Monagas) and San Felipe (Yaracuy); (e) Factory of
Industrial Refrigeration Equipment based on the use of freon: Villa de Cura,state of Aragua.

3.2.5.26.Develop
–in the area of machinery and equipment –the following projects: (a) Factory of Machinery forConstruction with XCMG; (b) Plants for the recycling of raw materials (REMAPCA company), in Carabobo, Bolivar,
Falcón and the capital district.

3.2.5.27.Accelerate
–in the area of forest resources –the
construction of the following projects: (a) Basic enterprise for the production
of pulp and paper (PULPACA),
Industrial Area of Macapaima, Independencia municipality, state of
Anzoátegui.

3.2.5.28.Develop
- in the area of forest resources – the following projects: (a) Reinforcement
of Invepal; (b) Strategic alliance to
manufacture school items.

3.2.5.29.Develop
–in the area of textiles and footwear – the following projects: (a) Tanneries
for the processing of raw hides; (b) Development of a textile and footwear
conglomerate, for the entire productive chain.

3.2.6Strengthen
the tourist sector as a tool for social inclusion which enables and guarantees
the Venezuelan people, mainly the most vulnerable populations, access to their
Tourist Heritage (Tourist Destinations) and the enjoyment of the State’s
tourist infrastructures at fair and reasonable prices.

3.2.6.1.Promote
depressed tourist destinations, through the improvement or creation of tourist
infrastructures: The Los Llanos Region,
the Andean Region and the insular territories, which have not had any tourist
promotion (La Tortuga and La Orchila).

3.2.6.2.Strengthen
the international positioning of Venezuela as a tourist destination, through an
international massive tourist promotion. In this regard, the goal is to have 2
million international tourists visiting our country, which will triple the
current average figure.

3.2.7Develop
the tourist sector as a productive activity generating revenues enough to be
redistributed by the Bolivarian Government to satisfy the needs of the
Venezuelan People.

3.2.7.1.Promote
the growth of Domestic Tourism through People’s Tourism policies and programs
of. In this regard, our goal is to have 22 million people every year traveling
for tourist purposes. At the moment, according to the information provided by
the National Statistics Institute (INE), a total of 17 million Venezuelans tour
around the entire country every year for tourist purposes.

3.2.7.2.Strengthen
the Hoteles Venetur Network and its
positioning as the first hotel network in the country.Likewise, our intention is to position the Venetur’s head office as the main
Venezuelan tour operator.This will make
it possible to increase the direct contribution of this economic activity to
benefit the country.

3.2.7.3.Internationalize
the Hoteles Venetur network, through
alliances and investments of our own. This policy will allow the country to
receive foreign currencies that can be reoriented to satisfy the needs of the
Venezuelan People.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

3.3Organize
and expand the military power to ensure the defense of the Homeland

Our Homeland
promotes peaceful cooperation among nations; it encourages Latin American and
Caribbean integration, the principles of self-determination and
non-interference in the internal affairs of States. That is why the military
power of the country is purely defensive and dissuasive, and it does not
threaten anyone or intends to invade anyone.Quite on the contrary, we promote Latin American and Caribbean peace and
integration as a contribution to the defense of our peoples.This compels us to guarantee on a daily basis
the strengthening of our own doctrines and military technologies so that we
could be a reference of peace in the region, adapting our military industry to
our own needs --derived from the geo-strategic reality of our Homeland-- and
based on our cooperation with friendly countries.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

3.3.1Strengthen
the Venezuelan military industry.

3.3.1.1.Consolidate
the cooperation with sister nations in accordance with the requirements of the
Comprehensive Defense of the Homeland.

3.3.1.2.Promote
the technological transfer in every new equipping phase of our Bolivarian
National Armed Forces.

3.3.1.3.Increase
the development of technologies inherent to our military industry, in order to
guarantee autonomy and sovereignty in the air, naval and land space.

3.3.1.4.Reinforce
the integration bonds of our Homeland with sister nations to share capabilities
and knowledge for the well-being of our peoples.

3.3.2Develop
a training system with doctrine changes to ensure the Comprehensive Defense of
the Homeland.

3.3.2.1.Improve
and adapt the curricular designs according to the new conceptions and needs of
the military sector.

3.3.2.2.Consolidate
and strengthen the Bolivarian doctrine in our Bolivarian National Armed Forces.

3.3.2.3.Develop
a more efficient system of training and combative preparedness according to our
own reality.

3.3.2.4.Disseminate
and publicize in the entire country the new Comprehensive Defense concept.

3.3.2.5.Consolidate
a strategically defensive and essentially popular territorial defensive system
capable of leading the country in times of war from times of peace.

3.3.3Improve
and perfect the educational system of the National Armed Forces and the
People’s Power and transform it into a single block that gives a response to
the interests of the Homeland.

3.3.3.1.Prepare
and train the members of our Bolivarian National Armed Forces based on the
fundamental premise of the Bolivarian Ideals of Integration, Sovereignty and
Independence and the concept of a long-lasting people’s war.

3.3.3.2.Actively
integrate the training plans in our Military Academies and our Universities so
that they support the development and defense of our Homeland.

3.3.3.3.Increase
the training of military and civil professionals by means of agreements with
sister nations, which will help us to have an ever more united people and Armed
Force.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

3.4Further develop the new national geopolitics.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

3.4.1Consolidate
national integration and socio-territorial equity through the Comprehensive
Development Hubs: Norte Llanero, Apure – Orinoco (Eastern and Western),
which are clusters of Socialist Development, and Development- Driving
Districts.

3.4.1.1.Promote
and accelerate the Comprehensive Development of the Orinoco Oil Belt.

3.4.1.2.Transform
the habitat of the main urban centers and human settlements; with social
justice and a prominent role played by the people, thus preserving the
environment.

3.4.1.3.Achieve
the feasibility required by the development of the Orinoco Oil Belt, by
implementing a land transportation corridor.

3.4.1.4.Promote
the Apure - Orinoco river route in order to establish the necessary relations
and articulations among populated areas located on both sides of the river,
taking advantage of the oil, agricultural, fishing, and tourist activities and
encouraging the exchange among said populated areas.

3.4.1.5.Build
the necessary rail roads for the transportation of passengers and the
distribution of goods in the Orinoco Oil Belt.

3.4.1.6.Strengthen
and improve the systems of drinking water distributed in the Orinoco Oil Belt.

3.4.1.8.Formulate
and implement plans for land management at different territorial scales.

3.4.1.9.Preserve
the watersheds and water bodies.

3.4.1.10.Safeguard
and preserve the natural environments.

3.4.1.11.Incorporate
the acknowledgment of Peoples’ Culture in the processes of land management and
planning.

3.4.1.12.Promote
programs for the comprehensive management of solid wastes.

3.4.1.13.Strengthen
and improve the systems of drinking water throughout the country.

3.4.1.14.Maintain
and improve the stability of drinking water distribution service at a rate of
250 liters per person, both in urban and rural areas, throughout the country.

3.4.1.15.Continue
the construction of 100 aqueducts in the country, which will guarantee the
national production of 4 billion cubic meters of drinking water, to satisfy the
demand of a population that is estimated to increase to 32.000.000 inhabitants
by the year 2019.

3.4.1.16.Finish
the construction of the Tuy 4.This will
offer a continuous service to the populations of the states of Miranda, Vargas
and the capital district and will distribute 21 000 liters of water per second.

3.4.1.17.Finish
the construction of the “Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi” Aqueduct. This will offer
a stable drinking water service of to the inhabitants of the states of Nueva
Esparta and Sucre and will distribute 2 700 liters per second.

3.4.1.18.Finish
the construction of the Expansion of the Center Regional System which will
offer a permanent drinking water service to the inhabitants of the state of
Carabobo: Eastern hub of the state of Carabobo and the Carlos Arvelo
municipality; through the state of Aragua (the whole metropolitan hub from the Iragorri
municipality to the Ribas municipality). With the construction of this fourth
line, the production will increase supply from 7 200 to 9 000 liters per
second.A population of 400 thousand
inhabitants will be benefited.

3.4.1.19.Finish
the construction of the Barcelona – Guanta – Lechería Aqueduct.This will offer a permanent drinking water
service to the inhabitants of the state of Anzoátegui (Puerto la Cruz, Guanta,
Barcelona, Lecherías), increasing the production of water from 3000 to 6000
liters per second and benefiting a population of 800 thousand people.

3.4.2Promote
and accelerate the Development of the Mining Arch.

3.4.2.1.Create
a legal framework that guarantees the State’s sovereign and hegemonic control
over the development of the productive chain in the mining sector and its
related activities.

3.4.2.2.Guarantee
the due quantification and certification of the amount of resources available
in the sectors of iron, aluminum, coltan, gold and other minerals.

3.4.2.3.Promote
the development of technologies of our own that allow for a rational
exploitation of minerals in Mining Arch, without depredating the environment.

3.4.2.4.Define
units of territorial administration in areas with a mining potential for the
coordination of territorial, social and economic policies, preserving the
historical and socio–cultural heritage.

3.4.3Foment
and consolidate the development of Petrochemical Clusters.

3.4.4Promote
and consolidate the development of the Socialist Petro-industrial Basis in a
specific area of the territory, which allows for the development of the
regional potential, in order to offer goods and services to the oil industry.

3.4.5Maintain
and guarantee the operation of the Government Federal Council, the authorities
it is composed of, as well as the forms to coordinate policies and actions
among the territorial political entities and the grass-roots organizations of
the People’s Power.

3.4.6Promote
the creation of Development-Driving Districts to promote a group of economic,
social, scientific and technological projects in the geographical area they
cover, aimed at achieving the comprehensive development of the regions and the
strengthening of the people’s power, in order to facilitate the transition
toward socialism.

3.4.6.1.Constitute
the Barlovento Development-Driving District in the state of Miranda, an area
considered a priority in the watershed of River Tuy, specialized in
agro-industrial production.

3.4.6.2.Constitute
the Caicara – Cabruta Development-driving District, in the states of Bolívar
and Guárico. Invigorating projects: The Third Bridge over the river Orinoco and
UPS Algodones del Orinoco, specialized in agro-industrial production.

3.4.6.3.Constitute
the Development-Driving District Biruaca–Achaguas, in the states of Guárico and
Apure. An invigorating project: Sugar cane for ethanol center, specialized in
agro-industrial production.

3.4.6.5.Constitute
the Sur del Lago Development-Driving District, in the states of Zulia and
Merida.A UPS Distribution invigorating
project, specialized in agro-industrial production.

3.4.6.6.Constitute
the Santa Elena de Uairén – Ikabarú Development-Driving District, in the states
of Bolívar and Amazonas.An invigorating
project: air and river transportation, with specialized in agro-ecology and
tourism.

3.4.6.8.Constitute
Las Tacariguas - Las Tejerías Development-Driving District in the states of
Aragua and Carabobo. Invigorating projects: Iran - Venezuela and China -
Venezuela vehicle assembly plants, a structural solution for the growth of Lago
de Tacarigua, specialized in industrial, environmental and agricultural development.

3.4.6.9.Constitute
the El Diluvio del Palmar Development-Driving District, in the state of Zulia.
An invigorating project: El Diluvio irrigation system. This area is specialized
in agriculture.

3.4.6.10.Constitute
the Florentino Development-Driving District (Boconó – Barinas), in the states
of Barinas and Trujillo.Invigorating
projects: Boconó – Barinas freeway, Center for Breeding Development in
Florentino, specialized in agro-industrial production.

3.4.6.11.Constitute
the Orichuna – Matiyure Development-Driving District, in the state of
Apure.An invigorating project: Cattle
UPS, specialized in agriculture.

3.4.6.12.Constitute
the Ciudad Tiuna Urban Development-Driving District, located in the capital
district and the Bolivarian state of Miranda, to develop the new model of
Socialist City.

3.4.6.13.Constitute
the Ciudad Caribea Urban Development Driving-District, located in the capital
district and the state of Vargas, to develop the new model of Socialist City.

3.4.6.14.Constitute
the Ciudad Belén Urban Development Driving-District, located in the Bolivarian
state of Miranda, to develop the new model of Socialist City.

3.4.7Improve
and guarantee the existing infrastructure in the agricultural production areas.

3.4.7.1.Promote
the creation of areas of agricultural concentration with big potentialities, in
order to guarantee the national food security and the generation of
agricultural products such as corn, rice, soy, cotton, and sorghum and
livestock production.

3.4.7.2.Develop
gradually the central plains of the Orinoco River.

3.4.8Integrate
the national territory, by means of multimodal infrastructure corridors: land,
railroad, air, and river transportation, electric power, gas, oil, water and
telecommunications.

3.4.8.1.Maintain
and build highways, freeways and inter-state highways connecting big and medium
size cities throughout the national territory.

3.4.8.3.Improve
the conditions of highways in rural and agricultural areas.

3.4.9Promote
the creation of a State-run transportation company that allows for the
improvement of public service to users and the replacement of the old motor
vehicle fleet that generates a high consumption of fuel.

3.4.10Guarantee
the railroad development throughout our national territory in order to
transport passengers, agricultural products, industrial products and commercial
goods.

3.4.10.2.Advance
the construction of the railroad sections located to the south of our country:
1. Tinaco – Anaco (Construction); 2. San Juan de los Morros – San Fernando
(Construction); 3. Chaguaramas – Cabruta (Construction) and 4. San Juan de
Morros –La Encrucijada (Construction), and to guarantee their connection with
the railroad sections located in the northern coastal area.

3.4.10.3.Promote
the construction of other railroad sections that allow for the interconnection
of the Andean, East, South and Central regions of the national territory.

3.4.11Accelerate
the development of a system that will make it possible to navigate through the
Orinoco River and the Apure River without depredating the environment.

3.4.11.1.Promote
the development of a plan or the construction of ports along our coasts.

3.4.12Plan
from the Central Government and with the leading participation of the people
the urban and rural development of existing and emerging cities in the whole
country, through the development of the Grand Mission Vivienda Venezuela.

3.4.12.1.Develop
the second phase of the Grand Mission Vivienda Venezuela to eradicate, once and
for all, the accumulated housing deficit.

3.4.12.2.Implement
the compact city as a model of sustainable urban development, with low height
and high density constructions.

3.4.12.3.Foment
the economy of spaces and resources as a means to achieve a balanced urban
growth, incorporating existing idle or underused lands in populated areas and
their peri-urban areas.

3.4.12.4.Strengthen
the housing construction in rural areas to improve the living conditions of
rural families.

3.4.12.5.3.4.12.5.
Build 2.650.000 new homes, distributed in the country according to the national
housing registry, so that the hubs of comprehensive development, the development
clusters and the development-driving districts could be consolidated.

3.4.12.16.Implement
a plan to activate public spaces in populated areas.

3.4.12.17.Improve
and rehabilitate the existing buildings having urban equipment.

3.4.12.18.Build
the necessary urban equipment in the new projects.

3.4.12.19.Incorporate
in the urban plans and projects the productive activities that generate
liberating work for the new inhabitants.

3.4.12.20.Promote
the construction of new homes in the vicinity of the new productive centers.

3.4.12.21.Establish
productive spaces with a low environmental impact on the housing developments
under construction.

3.4.12.22.Consolidate
the specialization of the new urban developments of important dimensions to
boost productive diversification.

3.4.13Strengthen
the presence of the State in border areas and the articulation in the façades
of Caribbean, Andean and Amazon integration, in order to contribute to
reinforce independence and national sovereignty.

IV.Contribute to the development of a new International
Geopolitics that gives rise to a multicentered and multipolar world that would
allow for the achievement of the equilibrium of the Universe and ensure peace
on the planet.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

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4.1Continue playing a leading role in the
construction of the Latin American and Caribbean unity.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

4.1.1Strengthen
the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), as the vital
space for the political relations of the Bolivarian Revolution.

4.1.1.1.Encourage
ALBA’s leading role in the Latin American and Caribbean process of changes,
thus making new spaces such as UNASUR and CELAC all the more dynamic.

4.1.1.2.Strengthen
the ALBA mechanisms for concerted political action at the Inter-American and
Universal systems, with the aim of transforming them in a comprehensive way.

4.1.1.3.Build
the ALBA Economic Zone, by means of the necessary economic structure,
strengthening the role of the Regional
Unitary Compensation System (SUCRE)
and the ALBA Bank as part of the strategy of economic, financial, productive
and commercial complementarity in the region.

4.1.2Strengthen
the PETROCARIBE mechanism as a solidarity scheme for energy and social
cooperation in solidarity.

4.1.2.1.Strengthen
the alliance between Venezuela and the Caribbean countries, by means of the
PETROCARIBE mechanism, thus consolidating an independent and sovereign
Caribbean unity for the comprehensive development of its peoples.

4.1.3Consolidate
the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)
as a regional strategic space for the construction of a multipolar world.

4.1.3.1.Guarantee
Venezuela’s active participation in every UNASUR
Council meeting, to promote policies and actions that benefit the peoples of
Our America.

4.1.4Promote
and strengthen the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), as a mechanism of unity of Latin
America and the Caribbean.

4.1.4.1.Strengthen
the role of CELAC as a common space for political, economic, social and
cultural integration of the region.

4.1.4.2.Train
and assign the cadres who will promote the strategic spaces for regional
integration and cooperation (ALBA,
PETROCARIBE, UNASUR, and CELAC).

4.1.5Strengthen
the bilateral strategic alliances with the countries of Our America, as the
basis for promoting sub-regional and regional schemes of unity (ALBA, MERCOSUR, etc.)

4.1.5.1.Strengthen
the political identification with the governments and brother peoples of the
ALBA and MERCOSUR member countries to continue promoting policies of justice
and solidarity in Our America.

4.1.5.2.Intensify
the grand-national projects of economic unity with the ALBA countries, and of
productive complementarity with the MERCOSUR countries.

4.1.5.3.Consolidate
the policy of political dialogue at the highest level and of productive links
with the sister Republic of Colombia, thus fulfilling the mandate of unity of
The Liberator, Simón Bolívar.

4.1.6Advance
in the creation of productive economic links with Latin America and the
Caribbean which strengthens the national industry and guarantee a secure supply
of products.

4.1.6.1.Strengthen
Banco del Sur as an institution for
the regional financial integration.

4.1.7Consolidate
the existing bilateral strategic alliances between Venezuela and the countries
in the region, with special emphasis on the cooperation with Brazil, Argentina,
and Uruguay, in the different areas of ongoing complementarity and cooperation.

4.1.7.1.Consolidate
Venezuela as a supplier of solidarity cooperation, without hegemonic pretenses
and based on the principle of self-determination of the peoples.

4.1.7.2.Approach
cooperation with the allied countries of the region as a driving force of the
socialist socio-productive model.

4.1.7.3.Guarantee
scientific and technological transfer in cooperation, in order to achieve
productive economic independence.

4.1.8Promote
the new Latin American and Caribbean communication order, with emphasis on the
new regional mass media and systems, and the promotion of new communication
tools.

4.1.8.1.Strengthen
Telesur to guarantee a broader regional and world presence.

4.1.8.2.Expand
the signal of Radio del Sur as a communication tool for the recognition of
political processes of the region.

4.1.8.3.Promote
alternative and community information networks in the region, as well as social
networks.

4.1.8.4.Disseminate,
on a permanent basis, truthful information produced by the ALBA countries and
other allied countries of the South.

4.1.8.5.Guarantee
the permanent production of contents disseminated through the regional mass
media about the social, political, and cultural advances of the Bolivarian
Revolution.

4.1.9Promote
the amicable and cooperative resolution of pending demarcations, based on the
understanding that the stabilization of borders is an element of unity and
peace.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

4.2Consolidate
our identity as a nation and as part of Our America.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

4.2.1Consolidate
the heterogeneous and ethnic diversity vision of Venezuela and Our America,
based on the respect for and integration of minorities and indigenous peoples to
the life of the nation and its decision-making process.

4.2.1.1.Consolidate
and create national institutional structures in Our America at the
organizations for cooperation and integration such as ALBA, UNASUR, CELAC, and MERCOSUR.

4.2.1.2.Increase
the presence of this issue in the curricula and audiovisual programs, as well
as in national and international events on this topic.

4.2.2Address,
from the high legal, national and regional levels of Our America, the
educational contents related to the national identity and diversity of the
peoples.

4.2.2.1.Present
regional and sub-regional initiatives such as Social Letters, Cultural Letters,
Declarations, Pacts and government documents stemming from the people’s
participation and contained in the new institutional structures of Our America.

4.2.2.2.Defend
the presence of ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples in the decision-making
process in Our America.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

4.3Continue to promote the development of a
multipolar world without imperial domination with full respect for the self-determination
of peoples.

STRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

4.3.1Constitute
a network of political relations with the emerging power groups.

4.3.1.1.Establish
an alliance with the BRICS Group as a nucleus that gathers the fundamental
emerging powers in the consolidation of a multipolar world.

4.3.1.2.Promote
reconcilement and coordination among the new mechanisms of Latin American and
Caribbean unity (ALBA, UNASUR, CELAC)
and the BRICS Group, in order to further strengthen the voice of the peoples of
the South in the global agenda.

4.3.1.3.Take
the strategic alliances with the People’s Republic China, the Russian
Federation and the Federative Republic of Brazil to a higher level to continue
consolidating the national power.

4.3.1.4.Establish
strategic alliances with the Republic of India and the Republic of South
Africa.

4.3.1.5.Strengthen
the political and economic cooperation with all the countries of Our America
and with those countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania whose governments
are willing to work on the basis of respect and mutual cooperation.

4.3.1.6.Intensify
the approach to mechanisms of economic and political integration of Asia and
Africa, (ASEAN, ECOWAS, etc.) by
participating as observers and promoting contacts between them and the
mechanisms of Latin American and Caribbean unity.

4.3.1.7.Promote
Venezuela’s leadership in the Movement ofNon-Aligned Countries (NAM), with a view to holding the 17th
Summit of Heads of State and of Government in Venezuela.

4.3.1.8.Give
a new impulse to South – South inter regional fora such as the South America –
Africa Forum (ASA) and the South America - Arab Countries Forum (ASPA).

4.3.2Create
a new communication order for the South.

4.3.2.1.Strengthen
the multi-State Telesur television
and radio networks and Radio del Sur,
together with their respective electronic platforms, to expand their scope,
their broadcasts in different languages and the variety and quality of their
contents, in order to disseminate the truth of our peoples and break the
information blockade and censorship to which the peoples of imperialist powers
are subject to by the transnational communication corporations.

4.3.2.2.Establish
alliances with the communication and information networks of the emerging world
groups to guarantee mutual knowledge and truthful information about our
realities, without the distorting screening of the big communication companies
of imperialist powers.

4.3.3Promote
peoples’ diplomacy and the leading participation of the organized people’s
movements in the construction of a multipolar world in equilibrium.

4.3.3.1.Promote
the participation of global networks of social movements in big international
Fora and Summits.

4.3.3.2.Support
the organization and celebration of international fora of social movements and
grass-roots people’s organizations and get acquainted with their demands and
proposals to include them in the global political agenda.

4.3.4Continue
encouraging the transformation of the Human Rights Systems, based on the
respect, the democratization of the system, the sovereign equity of States and
the principle of non-interference.

4.3.4.1.Maintain
an active policy and leadership, together with the progressive countries in the
region, calling for an urgent and necessary transformation of the
Inter-American System and Court of Human Rights, since they are highly
politicized bastions of the U.S. imperialism.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

4.4Dismantle
the neocolonial system of imperial domination.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL
OBJECTIVES:

4.4.1Separate
Venezuela from the international mechanisms of imperial domination.

4.4.1.1.Denounce
multilateral treaties that impose limits on the national sovereignty to serve
the interests of the neocolonial powers (Inter-American System of Human Rights,
etc.).

4.4.1.2.Denounce
bilateral agreements and treaties that impose limits on the national
sovereignty to serve the interests of the neocolonial powers (promotion and
protection of investments).

4.4.1.3.Establish
the necessary alliances to neutralize the actions of the neocolonial powers in
international agencies.

4.4.1.4.Eliminate
the participation of international financial institutions in the national
development projects.

4.4.2Reduce
economic and technological relations with imperial circles of domination to
levels that do not compromise the national independence.

4.4.2.1.Take
the commercial exchange with neocolonial powers down to non-vital levels.

4.4.2.2.Take
relations with financial circles dominated by neocolonial powers down to
non-vital levels.

4.4.2.3.Reduce
the participation of neocolonial powers in the financing of strategic projects
for national development.

4.4.2.4.Take
the connection of Venezuela to the information and communication networks
dominated by neocolonial powers down to non-vital levels

4.4.2.5.Eliminate
the dependence of national development strategic sectors on information and
communication networks controlled by neocolonial powers.

4.4.2.6.Take
the technological participation of imperial powers in national development projects
down to non-vital levels.

4.4.2.7.Eliminate
the technological participation of imperial powers in strategic sectors for the
national sovereignty.

4.4.3Strengthen
and expand relations with the emerging groups of the new world.

4.4.3.1.Increase
the amount of the emerging foreign currencies in the reserves and in
Venezuela’s international trade.

4.4.3.2.Carry
out most of the economic and commercial exchange with emerging groups of the
new world.

4.4.3.3.Increase
the economic and technological participation of emerging groups of the world in
national development projects.

4.4.3.4.Establish
alliances for political coordination and economic exchange among the unity
mechanisms of the South in different continents, with special emphasis on the
BRICS member countries.

V.Contribute to the preservation of life on the planet and the
salvation of the human species.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

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5.1Build
and promote the eco-socialist and productive economic model, based on a
harmonious relationship between man and nature that guarantees the rational,
sustainable and optimal use of natural resources while preserving the processes
and cycles of nature.

ESTRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

5.1.1Promote
socialism as the only option in the face of the predatory and unsustainable
capitalist model.

5.1.2Promote,
at the national and international levels, a new socio-productive ethics that
encourage the transformation of the unsustainable patterns of capitalist
production and consumption.

5.1.3Generate
socio-productive alternatives and new schemes of economic and financial
cooperation for the leverage of comprehensive development and the establishment
of a fair world trade, under the principles of complementarity, cooperation and
solidarity.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

5.2Protect and defend the permanent sovereignty
of the State over the natural resources for the supreme benefit of its people,
which shall always be its main guarantor.

ESTRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

5.2.1Promote
actions at the national and international levels for the protection and
preservation of strategic areas, among them: water sources and reservoirs
(surface waters and ground waters), integrated management of watersheds,
biodiversity, sustainable management of seas, oceans, and forests.

5.2.1.1.Maintain
a leadership position at the multilateral and regional international
negotiations related to the respective legal environmental frameworks in every
sector.

5.2.1.2.Continue
to encourage the recognition of the access to water as a human right in all
fora and at all levels.

5.2.2Dismantle
and combat the international schemes that promote the corporatization of
nature, environmental services and ecosystems.

5.2.2.1.Activate
strategic alliances to combat the corporatization of nature in all
international fora.

5.2.2.2.Promote
the development of a vision from ALBA-TCP
and CELAC that makes it possible to
strengthen the defense of regional interests, with a vision of our own from the
South, on these sensitive and strategic issues that constitute new forms of
domination and dependence.

5.2.3Promote
cooperation, at the regional level, for the integrated management of
transboundary natural resources.

5.2.3.1.Relaunch
cooperation with bordering countries on issues related to environmental
management and ecological areas of common interest according to the principles
of international law.

5.2.3.2.Defend
the territorial rights and the sovereignty of the Venezuelan State in the
negotiations related to the administration of marine and ocean spaces, as well
as of marine biological diversity beyond the national jurisdiction.

5.2.4Combat
the trend whereby all world environmental problems are to be discussed by the
Security Council, since they should be solved with the participation of all
States, without foreign hegemonic impositions.

5.2.4.1.Closely
follow the development of the agenda of the Security Council, to avoid the
inclusion of environmental and human topics as “international security issues.”

5.2.4.2.Strengthen
substantive debates on economic, social and environmental issues in relevant
fora at the regional and multilateral levels, so that decisions are made in an
inclusive and transparent manner, without paternalistic and neo-colonialist
instructions by developed countries.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

5.3Defend
and protect the historical and cultural patrimony of Venezuela and that of Our
America.

ESTRATEGIC
AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

5.3.1Combat
the production and valuation of cultural elements and dominant historical
stories, which circulate through the media and diverse institutions.

5.3.1.1. Engage public institutions in the production
of sound criticisms to cultural forms and dominant historical recreations.

5.3.1.1.Channel
criticism through the public media (magazines, television, events, etc.).

5.3.1.2.Promote
the production of school texts to raise awareness and train the new generations
in a critical spirit.

5.3.2Create
opinion for and mechanisms to record popular cultures and the historical memory
of subordinate social and ethnic groups.

5.3.2.1.At
the national and regional levels, to identify the opinion for and popular forms
of recreating the historical memory (for example, chroniclers).

5.3.2.2.Organize
in every Community Council and in every Community under Construction, working
groups to record the historical memory and the dissemination of the contents of
the popular or ethnic culture (in the case, for example, of aboriginal
populations, Afro-Venezuelans, the works done by the Committees of Urban Lands,
Water Tables and others).

5.3.2.3.Train
popular experts in the safeguard of the popular cultural patrimony and the
historical memory.

5.3.2.4.Engage
museums and other institutions of historical and cultural interest, in the plan
for the preservation and valuation of the popular historical and cultural
patrimony.

5.3.3Produce
a new culture, according to humanist principles, with the popular and
intellectual actors, so that the revalued past could be integrated with the
present we want to build.

5.3.3.1.Promote
debates within popular organizations about cultural experiences and identities
for the analysis of the current situation and the changes needed.

5.3.3.2.Make
special emphasis on gender relations.In
this regard, we intend to promote the creation of working groups made up by
women, in order to reflect on their family and working life and produce
resistance and liberation strategies, since they suffer the ravages of dominant
cultures, where women are relegated to a secondary role, often suffering
explicit forms of violence. The same thing would apply to groups with diverse
sexual preferences (homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons)
who are forced to live under a repressive and humiliating condition, where the
only way out is the frivolity offered by the capitalist world.

5.3.3.3.Favor
the construction of social spaces, which can coincide with the Community
Councils that are more involved with the revolutionary project, where new
socialization forms, more solidarity economic rules and the construction of
less repressive identities are experienced.

5.3.4Elaborate
strategies for the maintenance and dissemination in the global world of the
cultural features and the historical memory of the Venezuelan people.

5.3.4.1.Plan,
in an effective way,the delivery to all
public and school libraries of the materials produced about (a) the history of
subordinate groups; (b) the popular historical memory; (c) the different
regional and ethnic cultures of Venezuela.

5.3.4.2.Encourage
the dissemination of the historical, cultural, popular, traditional and new
contents through the mass, public and private media.

5.3.4.3.Elaborate
and implement a coordinated plan to disseminate the traditional culture and the
ethnic and subordinate historical memory of Venezuela through international
diplomatic institutions of Venezuela and encourage the relations with the
universities of other countries.

NATIONAL OBJECTIVE:

5.4Contribute
to the creation of a big world movement to eradicate the causes and reverse the
effects of climate change that occur as a consequence of the predating
capitalist model.

STRATEGIC AND GENERAL
OBJECTIVES:

5.4.1Continue
struggling for the preservation, respect for and strengthening of the climate
system constituted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
and its Kyoto Protocol.

5.4.1.1.Dismantle
the schemes of international carbon markets that legitimate the purchase of
contamination rights and the unpunished destruction of the planet.

5.4.1.2.Promote
and encourage the strengthening of the climate juridical regime in force with
emphasis on the historical responsibilities of developed countries.

5.4.1.3.Encourage
and support actions that promote the search for international justice regarding
incompliance by developed countries of their obligations within the framework
of the Kyoto Protocol.

5.4.2Design,
at the national level, a National Mitigation Plan that includes the productive
sectors that originate emissions of Greenhouse Gases, as a national voluntary
contribution to the efforts to save the planet.

5.4.2.1.Promote
the transformation of those productive sectors, at the national level, aligned
with the transforming ethics of the socialist economic model, with special
emphasis on energy, the agricultural and livestock sector, solid waste
management and forests.

5.4.3Design
an ambitious National Plan of Adaptation according to the eco-socialist and
Bolivarian ethical commitment that will make it possible for our country to
prepare itself for climate impacts and scenarios that will certainly take place
due to the irresponsibility of industrialized countries, which are the big
polluters of the world.

5.4.3.1.Design
a plan with the cooperation of all national entities in charge of the
territorial planning and the management of disasters with prospective strategic
planning for temperature increments in the next 20 years, according to the
mitigation promises that could in fact consolidate within the context of the
United Nations.

5.4.3.2.Estimate
the costs derived from losses and damages resulting from extreme climatic
episodes, including the insurance and reinsurances for specific sensitive
sectors (such as agriculture), which should add to the ecological debt of
industrialized countries.